BREEDING OF SWANS 
has, as a matter of fact, a finer and more melodious 
voice than many of its kindred in Europe. 
The voice of the black swan ought to be more often 
heard in the land. It has been acclimatized here for 
BLACK SWAN. 
years. In the very first list of animals recorded by the 
Zoological Society as having been acquired, issued in the 
year 1831, this bird figures. Since that date it has 
always been in stock, and has bred in most years. Sir 
Robert Heron pointed out to the Zoological Society in 
1833 that individuals kept by him sometimes even bred 
twice a year, and that, if only once, January was their 
favourite month, which corresponds, of course, to mid- 
summer in Australia. At present the months of breed- 
ing at the Zoo’are various. The bird is, moreover, not so 
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