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black swan (Cygnus atratus)
| Subject: | black swan (Cygnus atratus)
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English: Drawing/wood engraving of a black swan standing on land with another swan swimming in a pond in the background.
Date published 1891
Source Johann David Wyss (translated into English by the family of William Henry Giles Kingston), The Swiss Family Robinson, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891, p. 239.
Author signature illegible
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SFR_b%2Bw_-_black_swans.jpg
The black swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Black swans are large birds with mostly black plumage and red bills. The black swan is common in the wetlands of southwestern and eastern Australia and adjacent coastal islands. |
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