...Eight species of Swans are known to occur all over the worldwith the exception of New Zealand and Africa...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...The Anatidæ of North America are placed in five well-marked subfamilies,the Mergansers (Merginæ), River Ducks (Anatinæ), Sea Ducks(Fuligulinæ), Geese (Anserinæ), and Swans (Cygninæ)...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...The remaining species of our Ducks, Geese, and Swans, nest as arule, on the ground generally near water...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...Until 1697 all swans known to civilized people were white, and the swanwas an emblem of purity of color...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...The reports of swans living for fifty yearsare quite credible...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...Most of the swans in America are kept inpublic parks or on large private estates...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...Still thebreeding of swans for ornamental purposes or for sale to exhibitorsmight be carried on with profit upon many farms...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...But there would bethis difference: the cow would require a great deal of care, the swansvery little; the cow would eat salable food, the swans mostly wastefood...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...The ancient fable that Swans sing most sweetly before their deathdid not survive the age which invented it...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...In severe winters, flocks of Whoopers, Whistling Swans, or Elks,as they are variously called, come farther south, and may beobserved from time to time on different parts of the coast...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...A few others, likethe swans and grebes, bear the young ones onthe back, but the woodcock's method isunique...
Frederick G. Aflalo 「Birds in the Calendar」
...We had a good stove andthe first of the two swans was carefully "stuffed" withthe choicest dressing, consisting of the combined suggestionsof the three of us...
Harry Thom Payne 「Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast」
...As long as there wereblack sheep in the world, I don’tsee why there shouldn’t havebeen Black Swans, do you?...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [February, 1898]」
...In the courseof their maneuvers a flock of Swanswas suddenly encountered whichtook to flight without regard toanything that might be in the way...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [February, 1898]」
...In these a large number of swans, with wild geese and other aquatic birds, were swimming and feeding...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The swans were very large ones—of the Trumpeter species—and one of them was cooked for supper...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...These are common to all birds of the genus Cygnus, and are therefore not peculiar to the swans of America...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The Cygnus Americanus comes next; and, lastly, the small swans, that are among the very latest of migratory birds...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...Where the muskrat (Fiber zibethicus) abounds, his dome-shaped dwelling—at that season, of course, deserted—serves often as the breeding-place boll? for the swans and wild geese...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The fences or wattle-hedges are always constructed projecting out from the shore—for it is known that the swans must keep close in to the land while feeding...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
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