Swan:

By: Emil G. Hirsch , I. M. Casanowicz

The rendering of the Authorized Version for "tinshemet" (Lev. xi. 18; Deut. xiv. 16). The Revised Version, more correctly, gives "horned owl" ( see Lizard ; Mole ; Owl ).

Two species of swan have been found in Palestine, the whooper, or wild swan ( Cygnus musicus , or ferus ), and the Cygnus olor , or mansuetus ; they are, however, comparatively rare.

Some take the "barburim abusim" of the Talmud (B. M. 86b) to mean "swans," though the usual rendering is "fattened hens."