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HOOPER OR WILD SWAN. 
voyage possessed 232 birds. The lower figure is 
that of Lord Buckhurst, and the keys adopted have 
reference to the office of Chamberlain to the House- 
hold. 
There seems to be very few records of this species 
appearing in a wild state in Britain, none in modern 
days. Their natural residence seems to be Eastern 
Europe, but our information is yet scanty. * Mr. 
Strickland states that the species visits Smyrna Bay 
in winter. 
THE HOOPER OR WILD SWAN. 
Cygnus ferns. 
PLATE II.* Fiq 1. 
Tins species is the most common in Britain, being 
a general winter visitant, frequenting at this time 
the coasts of England, and the lochs, together with 
occasionally the shores and inland estuaries of Scot- 
land, in severe weather frequently ascending the 
courses of rivers for many miles ; we possess a fine 
specimen of one killed on the river Annan in our 
vicinity, and know that they have been shot on the 
Nith as high as Drumlanrig, and on some alpine 
lochs on the confines of Dumfries-shire and Selkirk- 
shire, they are frequently to be met with in winter. 
* Sibbald includes them among the birds of Scotland 
