. The wild-fowler : a treatise on ancient and modern wild-fowling, historical and practical . The hooper may also be known from the tame swan, at a distance,by its note; the wild bird making a sort of hooping noise, which,after hearing it once, the fowler is not likely to forget. They are-termed the peaceful monarchs of the lake, from the contrast theybear with the mute swan (Gygnus oZor J, which attacks all otherfresh birds that venture within reach of its neck. The young hoopers, like other cygnets, are fawn-coloured, and dohot attain that beautiful white plumage until two years of age; till
. The wild-fowler : a treatise on ancient and modern wild-fowling, historical and practical . The hooper may also be known from the tame swan, at a distance,by its note; the wild bird making a sort of hooping noise, which,after hearing it once, the fowler is not likely to forget. They are-termed the peaceful monarchs of the lake, from the contrast theybear with the mute swan (Gygnus oZor J, which attacks all otherfresh birds that venture within reach of its neck. The young hoopers, like other cygnets, are fawn-coloured, and dohot attain that beautiful white plumage until two years of age; tillthat time they are classed as cygnets. The skin, or soft substance,before alluded to, is not so bright in colour in the cygnets as inswans. The wild cygnet exhibits a pale flesh-colour in the place of thebright yellow; and the tame swan has, besides, a protuberance justabove the upper mandible. It is only in the hardest winters that wild-swans visit our coastsand inland waters ; and then there are frequently many tame swansamong them, which, having found themselves frozen out of the lakes.
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