. . MANDARIN DUCK. (.Aix t;al(.-rita)i, Life-si/e conDio-t i»«o. •» «. • nuMroTO, cmh. i:u BLACK SWAN.(Cvuniis Rtra(us). COPYIIIGMT l».-0 •» • « KUMfOHO CMIC40O T )( :,„ FAMOUS FOREIGN BIRDS 469 THE BLACK SWAN* Australia is the home of the Black Swan, and it isinvested by an even greater interest than attaches to theSouth American bird, which is white. The Dutch navi-gator William de Vlaming, visiting the west coast of South-land, sent two of his boats on the 6th of January, 1697, toexplore an estuary he had found. There their crews
. . MANDARIN DUCK. (.Aix t;al(.-rita)i, Life-si/e conDio-t i»«o. •» «. • nuMroTO, cmh. i:u BLACK SWAN.(Cvuniis Rtra(us). COPYIIIGMT l».-0 •» • « KUMfOHO CMIC40O T )( :,„ FAMOUS FOREIGN BIRDS 469 THE BLACK SWAN* Australia is the home of the Black Swan, and it isinvested by an even greater interest than attaches to theSouth American bird, which is white. The Dutch navi-gator William de Vlaming, visiting the west coast of South-land, sent two of his boats on the 6th of January, 1697, toexplore an estuary he had found. There their crews sawat first two and then more black swans, of which they caughtfour, taking two of them alive to Batavia; and Valentyn,who several years later recounted this voyage, gives in hiswork a plate representing the ship, boats, and birds, at themouth of what is kno^vn from this circumstance as theSwan River, the most important stream of the thrivingcolony of West Austraha, which has adopted this swanas its armorial S}Tnbol. Subsequent voyagers. Cook andothers, found that the range of the species extended overthe greater part of Australia,
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