Species of swan, possibly the whooper swan or common swan, Cygnus cygnus. De Avibus. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De avium natura, (Natural history of animals: birds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1585.

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