HOOPER.
AI.ARCH GWYI.T. ALA.HCH II.WYDD, OF THE AMTKNT BRITISH.
WILD SWAN. BLK. WHISTLING SWAN.
Cygnits ferus, FLBMINO. SELJIY.
Anas cygnus, PENNANT.
Anas ferns, MONTAGU.
Cvgnus—A Swan. Ferns—Wild, savage.
THB Hooper visits Prussia, Turkey, Greece, Hungary, Poland,
France, Holland, and Italy; occasionally seen also in different parts
of Germany, particularly, it is said, in Westphalia, Saxony, Dessau,
and Worlitz, from Iceland, Norway, Lapland, Sweden, Denmark,
Spitzbergen, and Russia in Europe; in Asia it occurs in Siberia,
Kamtschatka, and Tartary, the regions that border on the Black Sea
and the Caspian Sea, Japan, Syria, Persia, and China. It also is said
to be found in America, from Hudson's Bay through the United
States to Mexico. It appears likewise that it travels as far as Africa,
to Egypt and Barbary.
I n Yorkshire they have been shot near Doncaster, Sheffield, Barnsley,
one in 18!29, Leeds, and Sutton-on-Derwent; they are far from uncommon
in hard winters.
A flock of five appeared in January, 1855, between the village of
Cookham and Maidenhead, Berkshire, and two of them were shot, as
Mr. Thomas Wilhnot has sent me word; and according to the information
of the Hon. T. L. Powys, they have occurred in Northamptonshire.
I n Cambridgeshire it is not uncommon in severe winters in Whittlesea
Wash, the old 'Squattlesea Mere' of Roger Wildrake, and some were
met with near \\ isbeach, on the lliver Nene, in the middle of December,
1849. So also in Lincolnshire; often at Marshehapel, Tetney, and divers
other places. In Oxfordshire a flock of fifteen, one of which was shot,