Swan if a mate dies, the remaining swan will take up with another. The number of eggs in each clutch ranges from three to eight. The English word 'swan', akin to the German "Schwan", Dutch "zwaan" and Swedish "svan", is derived from Indo-European root "*swen" (to sound, to sing). Young swans are known as "swanlings" or as "cygnets"; the latter derives via Old French "cigne" or "cisne" (diminutive suffix -"et" "little") from the Latin word "", a variant form of "cycnus" "swan", itself from the Greek "kýknos", a word of the same meaning. An adult male is a "cob", from Middle
Electoral district of Swan (Legislative Council) than six months. Hector Rason, the district's eighth representative (from 1889 to 1890), went on to become Premier of Western Australia. Electoral district of Swan (Legislative Council) Swan, officially called The Swan, was an electoral district of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1870 to 1890, during the period when the Legislative Council was the sole chamber of the Parliament of Western Australia. Swan was one of the original ten Legislative Council districts created by the "Legislative Council Act 1870" (33 Vict, No. 13). The district's boundaries included large portions of what is now the western Wheatbelt, as well