mole, swan

“Swan” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Swans rare in Palestine

“Mole” From Concise Bible Dictionary:

1. tinshemeth. An animal classed among the unclean, but it is not known definitely what animal is meant by the Hebrew word. It is probably the chameleon, which is adopted in the RV. It is placed with the lizard and the snail (Lev. 11:3030And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. (Leviticus 11:30)). In two places the same word is translated “swan” (Lev. 11:1818And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, (Leviticus 11:18); Deut. 14:1616The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, (Deuteronomy 14:16)).
 
Chameleon
2. chapharperah. This is by most identified with the mole-rat, the spalax typhlus. It is very like a mole: it burrows under the earth and turns up mounds, but it is of a different order from the true mole. These mole-rats have been found in Palestine; they inhabit ruins and stone-heaps, and come out in the night. They may be well classed with the bats to which the idols will be cast in a future day (Isa. 2:2020In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats; (Isaiah 2:20)).
 
Spalax microphthalmus

“Swan” From Concise Bible Dictionary:

The Hebrew word is tanshemeth, and is mentioned among the unclean birds. The swan has been seen in Palestine, but it is rare, and, as it feeds on vegetation, it is supposed that some other bird is alluded to. The LXX and the Vulgate have the porphyrio and ibis. The RV has “horned owl” (Lev. 11:1818And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, (Leviticus 11:18); Deut. 14:1616The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan, (Deuteronomy 14:16)). Probably some water fowl is referred to, and the purple waterhen, of the Rallidae family, is a bird that would necessarily be condemned as unclean because of its feeding upon reptiles as well as birds: it seizes its prey by its long toes and conveys it to its mouth. It frequents the marshes bordering the Mediterranean.
 
The Purple Swamphen

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:
8580 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)
Transliteration:
tanshemeth
Phonic:
tan-sheh’-meth
Meaning:
from 5395; properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen
KJV Usage:
mole, swan