Swans Egg. A pear of ordinary size; of elliptical form; a long stem; the skin green, thinly covered in part with brown: the flesh melting, and full of a pleasant musky juice; ripens in November, and with care may be preserved for some time. This fruit is by many called the Poire d'Auch; this must be in error; Forsyth says the Poire d'Auch resembles the Colmart, but fuller in the neck; the Colmart is delineated by the Abbe Rozier as a very different pear, much larger, with a distinct neck: see figure no. 44 (Colmart). -- W. Coxe, A view of the cultivation of fruit trees, 1817. Swan Egg. Very old and unworthy of cultivation. Synonyms: Colmar d'Ete, Egg Pear, Eyer pear, Knevett's New Swan's Egg, Little Swan's Egg, Moor Fowl Egg, Moor-fowl Egg (incorrectly), Moor-fowl's Egg of Boston, New Swan's Egg, Poire d'Augh, Poire d'Euf, Swans Egg. -- W.H. Ragan, Nomenclature of the Pear, 1908.