. The American poulterer's companion: : a practical treatise on the breeding, rearing, fattening, and general management of the various species of domestic poultry, : with illustrations, and portraits of fowls taken from life. . st-bone. The tame swan, says Dickson, is very differ-ent from the wild swan which are sometimes seenin this country (England), though by no meanscommon. BLACK SWAN. This bird is found in large flocks in Van DiemansLand, and on the western coast of New Holland orAustralia, and is sufficiently tamed to breed in thiscountry. The black swan was first found, at Swan,or Blac
. The American poulterer's companion: : a practical treatise on the breeding, rearing, fattening, and general management of the various species of domestic poultry, : with illustrations, and portraits of fowls taken from life. . st-bone. The tame swan, says Dickson, is very differ-ent from the wild swan which are sometimes seenin this country (England), though by no meanscommon. BLACK SWAN. This bird is found in large flocks in Van DiemansLand, and on the western coast of New Holland orAustralia, and is sufficiently tamed to breed in thiscountry. The black swan was first found, at Swan,or Black Swan River, by a Dutch voyager, who, in1697, sailed forty or fifty miles up the river in hisboat. When Capt. Flanders, an excellent sailor of lateyears, first explored the same coast, he found blackswans in immense flocks, in the openings both ofthe rivers Tamer and Derwent. Of these flocks, hesays, From one-fifth to one-tenth of them were un-able to fly ; they cannot dive, but have a method ofplunging so deep in the water, as to render theirbodies nearly invisible, and thus frequently avoiddetection. In chase, their plan was to gain the windupon our little boat, and they generally succeeded AQUATIC FOWLS. Fig. 55. 249. BLACK SWAN. when the breeze was strong, and sometimes escapedfrom our shot also. It is black in every part, excepton a few of the quill-feathers, which are white. Thebill is bright red above, and greyish-white beneath.—Childs Natural History of Birds. The black swan of Australia is sometimes rearedhere (England), and may, in time, come to be bredmore extensively. It requires little different management from the common swan.—Dick. The black swans of New Holland, says Mow-bray, I have not hitherto had the opportunity ofseeing. They were introduced in this country someyears since, but I believe the number bred or remain- 250 AQUATIC FOWLS. ing is very small. They are said to degenerate hereas to size, yet the imported individuals, it seems, wereno larger than
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