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Smith's Bible Dictionary

Swan:

(Heb. tinshemeth) thus rendered by the Authorized Version in Leviticus 11:18; 14:16 where it occurs in the list of unclean birds but either of the renderings "porphyrio" (purple water‐hen) and "ibis" is more probable. Neither of these birds occurs elsewhere in the catalogue; both would be familiar to residents in Egypt, and the original seems to point to some water‐fowl. The purple water‐hen is allied to our corn‐crake and water‐hen, and is the largest and most beautiful of the family Rallidae. It frequents marshes and the sedge by the banks of rivers in all the countries bordering on the Mediterranean and is abundant in lower Egypt.

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