tors, into the proudeft attitudes imaginable, as if defirous of being
viewed. Will fwim on that element falter than a man can walk:
it however cuts but an inelegant figure on land. Is very ftrong,
and fometimes exceeding fierce; has not unfrequently been known
to throw down and trample under feet youths of fifteen or fixteen
years of age j and an old one to break the leg of a man with a
ftroke of the wings. Said to be very long-lived, and frequently
to arrive at the hundredth year. The young'not perfedt in plumage
till the fecond year. Lays the firft egg in February, and continues
laying every other day to the amount of fix, feven, or eight
eggs; thefe are placed on a bed of grajs near the water, and fits
fix wééks. It feeds on both fijb and herbage. The flefh of the old
ones is hard and iil-tafted; that of the young yet efteemed,
though infinitely more valued by the antients than in the prefent
age.
B L A C K -N E C K ED Black-necked Swan, Bang. Voy. p . 5g.— Perntl. Voy. ii . p. 26. ch. 9.
S W.
D e s c r i p t i o n . ,J , HIS fpecies is faid to have a red b i l l : the plumage the fame
with the other Swan, except that the neck is o f a Velvet
black : the feet are flelh-coloured.
Plac*. This fpecies inhabits the Falkland IJlands, Rio del Plata, and
the ftraits of Magalhaen. A bird is likewife mentioned in Hawkef-
worth's Colleltion of Voyages, vol. iii. p. 101. 117, faid to be
black and white, much larger than a Pelican, and' refembling
that bird. Poffibly the above may be meant by this lhort .de-
fcription.
Oifeaux
O i f e a u x g r i f e s , o u O i e s d e p l e in , Fernet. Voy. i i . c h . Ig, p . z i l
R a c e h o r f e D u c k , Fernet. Journ. p . 2 1 3 , 2 1 4 .
L o g g e r h e a d , P h il Tran/, v o l . lxvi. p . 104.— /W . Falk. IJl. p . 3$.— F0rJl.
Voy. i i . p . 4 9 ,2 .
J ^ E N G T H thirty-two inches *. Bill three inches.long j. colour
orange j the top of the upper mandible brown at the
bafe the tip black: irides orange, furrounded. with black, and
then with orange : the head and neck deep alh-colour : upper
parts of the body much the fame : the outer edge of the fecon-
daries white, forming a band of the fame on the wing : the under
parts of the body dufky down the middle : over the thighs
cinereous blue: vent white : quills and tail black; the laft lhort,
and pointed in lhape: the wings are likewife very lhort, not
reaching to the rump : on the bend of the wing a yellow knob,
half an inch in length : the kgs are brownilh orange: webs
dulky: claws, black.
Thefe inhabit Falkland IJlands, Staaten Land, &c. and were
moftly feen in pairs, though fometimes they were obferved in
large flocks. From the lhortnefs of the wings they were'unable
to fly ; but.they made confiderable ufeof them when in the war
ter, on whiefethey feemed as it were to run, at leaft they fwam,
with the affiftance of the wings, ufed as oars, at an incredible
rate, infomuch that it was a moft difficult thing to ffioot them,
while on that element: to catch them, the Jailors ufed to furround
* S om e o f o u r v o y a g e r s c a l l th e w e i g h t o f i t n in e t e e n o r tw e n t y p o u n d s ;
b u t o th e r s fo u n d i t to b e n o t l e f t th a n tw e n t y - n in e o r t h i r t y .— S e e Coot's Voy.
i i . p . 2 0 4 .
4 *
LO G G E R H E A D
G .
D e s c r i p t i o n .
P l a c e .
a flock