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SWAN, SIR JOSEPH W. - LoveToKnow Article on SWAN, SIR JOSEPH W. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11) |
 | | SWAN, SIR JOSEPH WILSON (1828-), English physicist and electrician, was born at Sundeiland on the 3ist of October 1828. |
| | From its breeding-grounds, whether they be in Turkestan, in south-eastern Europe or Scania, the swan migrates southward towards winter, and at that season may be found in north-western India (though rarely), in Egypt, and on the shores of the Mediterranean. |
| | The first is the trumpeter-swan, C. buccinator, which has the bill wholly fl, and the second the C. columbianusgreatly resembling Bewicks swan, but with the colored patches on the bill of less extent and deepening almost into scarlet. |
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