OF BIRDS 8 
The Wild Swan's beak is black, and it has a yellow 
éafe. 
Wild Swans do not breed in Great-Bé@tain ; 3 
but fometimes they come to Lingey, which is one 
_ of the weftern Iflands. In the fummer, they are 
found in Lapland. In the lakes of that country 
there are vaft numbers of the larvze of gnats, and 
other infects; and multitudes of fwans, and geefe, 
and ducks, and goofanders, and divers, and other 
water fowl, go to pafs the fummer there. Before 
the winter begins, (which in thofe northern 
countries is exceedingly cold and — hey 
come to warmer climates. | 
Swans are found in the deferts of Tartary, and 
* in Siberia, as far as Kamf{chatka, (Siberia is in 
"the north of Afia;) in Egypt, which is in Africa; — 
and in many parts of America: the Indians of 
Louifiana, which is in North America, wear their 
fkins, with the down upon them, fewed together : 
their chiefs put the longer feathers in their caps. 
In Auguft they lofe their feathers, and are not 
ableto fly. Then the people of Kamfchatka, and 
of Iceland, hunt them with dogs, which catch 
them by the neck, and kill them; and fometimes 
they deftroy them with clubs. The fkin of the 
legs they take off whole, and make it into puries, 
which look like thagreen. 
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