. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . This bird is above twenty inches in length, and threefeet ten in breadth. The chin, throat and crown of thehead are black; two stripes of white fall down from behindeach eye, on the sides of the neck and meet in the middle ;the other parts of the neck, and the upper part of the breastare deep rusty red; back and wings dusky ; sides andlower part of the breast black. This beautiful species is a native of Russia and Siberia,whence t
. A Book of ornithology, for youth. Embracing descriptions of the most interesting and remarkable birds in all countries, with particular notices of American birds . This bird is above twenty inches in length, and threefeet ten in breadth. The chin, throat and crown of thehead are black; two stripes of white fall down from behindeach eye, on the sides of the neck and meet in the middle ;the other parts of the neck, and the upper part of the breastare deep rusty red; back and wings dusky ; sides andlower part of the breast black. This beautiful species is a native of Russia and Siberia,whence they migrate southward in the autumn and returnin spring. They are said to frequent the Caspian sea, andare supposed to winter in Persia. They have been foundbut very rarely, in Great Britain. THE SWAN. 273 THE SWAN. So much difference is there between this bird when onland and in the water, that it is hardly to be supposed thesame, for in the latter, no bird can possibly exceed it forbeauty and majestic appearance. When it ascends fromits favourite element, its motions are awkward, and itsneck is stretched forward Avith an air of stupidity; it has,indeed, the
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