period, the Vintners’ Company alone possessed five hundred
birds.S
- In the. language of' swranherds,/the maidSwan is* called a
Cob,-the female a Pen : thegg terms refer|^th6'comparative
size'and grade of the. two' sexes*;'dhe black^berSe^%t tie
base of the beak -^called the berry: "
NATAWRES,' ,, ANATIBM.
T H E POLISH SWAN.
Cygnus immutamik, Palish* Swan/ Proc. Zool. Sde. 1838, p. ,19.
T h e London dealers' in' birds have-"long been .in the habit
of receM% from the Baltic »‘large Swah,<which, they dl&£
tinguisBj by the name of thfj Polish Swan. I la d reason to
believe that tip* Swan would prove tovbe » distinct species,
though, evermore nearly allied externally to our Mute Swan,
than Bewick’s Swan is’to'thej Hjilper. Previous to tie
yearl836;< a nobleman wrote to the late Mr. Joseph Sabine,
to' inquire what was the name’of a tame'Swan he had seen
with her brood, fthe cygnets of which were all white ; and in
the ? spring of:> 1886, the Ornithological Society of London
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