reaching four feet six inches, and the weight, twenty-one
pounds.
The anatomical representations of Bewick’s. Swan, necessarily
very much reduced in size here, will be found of much
larger dimensions in the sixteenth volume of the Linnean
Transactions.
NATATORES. ANATIDÆ.
T H E M U T E SWAN.
Anas olor, Tame Swan, P enn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 221.
Mute . Bewick, Briti Birds, vol, ii. p. 286.
Cygnus ,, ,, ,, . J enyns, Brit. Vert. p. 228..
,, mansuetus, Domestic ,, ' Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. vii.
Anas. qlor,. . Cygne tubereulA. Temm. Man. d’Omith. t; ii. p. 830.
Cygnus- „ „ j , ,, ,, ,, pt. iv. p. 529.
O u r Mute Swan is one o f the most graceful as well as the
largest of British Birds, and at the same time so well known
and appreciated, that minute details of its characters, or its
value, are unnecessary,, beyond pointing out those external
differences by which it may be readily distinguished from
either of the species already described.
The most obvious difference, and that which will immediately
strike the observer oh comparing the representation of
our Mute, half-domesticated Swan, with those of the Hooper
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