ended wings, they are enabled to remain as commonly six or seven thick-shelled white long as it suits their convenience, in some fa- eggs: she is said to sit upon them six weeks vourite part of a lake or river which abounds before they are hatched. Both male and fe- with their food. The swan is… … Wild Swan. (Anas Cygnus ferus, mense multitudes, particularly on the large Linn.; Le Cygne Sauvage, Burr.)—Mea- rivers and lakes of the thinly inhabited north- sures five feet in length, and above seven in ern parts of Europe, Asia, and America: breadth, and weighs from thirteen to sixteen but when…
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