A Year with the Birds / Third Edition, Enlarged

by W. Warde Fowler

[71]Sundevall (Thierarten des Aristoteles, p. 123) pronounces κόραξ to have been our Raven.

[72]See Newton’s Yarrell, ii. 290.

[73]

Whose weedy water feeds the snow-white swan.

—Georg. ii. 199.

[74]With that a great noise rises aloft in diverse contention, even as when flocks of birds haply settle on a lofty grove, and swans utter their hoarse cry among the vocal pools in the fish-filled river of Padusa.

—Aen. xi. 456; cp. vii. 700.

[75]

When cool eve

Allays the air, and dewy moonbeams slake