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care not to handle tlie eggs, since we did not want to take them. Meanwhile it was clear that 

 the other nests no longer held the young birds, so we searched for the goslings, and soon saw a 

 pretty sight. The parents had detected our presence, and having collected their four young 

 ones they were swimming with them in a little bay, and thence out to sea. In a few moments 

 more we discovered another brood ; this time the old birds were on a rock some seven feet above 

 the water, with their young around them ; on our approach they all plunged into the water and 

 made seawards. It was an interesting sight, all the more so because these geese are never seen 

 at other times in the water; they seem to dislike swinmiing and keep on the land. Trying 

 again elsewhere we were fortunate enough to capture a young bird before it reached the water, 

 a grey creature, marked with black' bands, and as hard and elastic as india-rubber. It did not 

 seem particularly terrified, although the parent tlew round giving vent to an.\ious cries. We 

 returned the young one to the water, and it, with its two companions, swam on to a rock some 

 fifty yards away, where they rested quite content and without fear until the two old birds in 

 time joined them. These Geese apparently dislilce the presence of cattle, and never breed where 

 they are, but they have no objection to sheep." On the 22nd January, 1900, Mr. E. D. Atkinson 

 also kindly forwarded me some notes prepared by Bishop Montgomery, relative to this species, 

 but there is very little to be added to those he prexiously published. He remarks: — "The 

 nest is large and rather flat, and well lined with down. Four eggs are usually laid, but seven 

 have been found. On any day in July twenty nests could be found on either of two small islands. 

 Many eggs are taken, and over so large an area there is no preventing it, but fortunately i\lr. 

 Maclaine, J. P., preserves them. These Geese feed solely on grass." 



It breeds readily in confinement, and I am indebted to Dr. Eric Sinclair (Trustee) for a 

 description of the nest and eggs of this species, who kindly allowed me to examine those in his 

 possession. One of several pairs of these birds had chosen for the site of their nest a clump of 

 bamboo canes, growing in a small enclosure in a paddock. The nest was made on the 

 ground, and was composed of the dried leaves and strips of stiff paper-like debris of the 

 bamboo, intermingled with down plucked off the breast of the birds. It measured sixteen inches 

 across externally, and contained three eggs of a dirty white colour: — Length (A) 2-93 x 2-12 

 inches; (B) 2-94 x 2-12 inches; (C) 3-15 ■< 2-ii inches. Both birds vigorously defended 

 their nest, and showed every sign of resentment at the intrusion on their domain. 



The young are clothed in pure white down, and ha\ e a narrow stripe down the centre of 

 the head and hind-neck, and a broader one on the side of the head, brown ; a broad band down 

 the centre, and another at the side of the body and wings, brown. 



Sub-family OHENONETTIN^. 



C3-erL\n.s oiaiEisroiisrEar'T'.ii^, /i,;,n</f. 

 Chenonetta jubata. 



MANED GOOSE. 



Alias jidiata, Latii-, Ind. ( )rii. Suppl., p. Ixix. (IJSOI). 



liernida j'libala, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol. Vol. V^II., pi. 3 (lS4iS). 



(J hlanu/dnchen. jubata, Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., Vol. II., p. ;}54 (ltS65). 



ChenonMta jubata, iia.\va.d., Cat. Bd.s. Brit. Mus., Vol. XXVII., p. 140(189.5); Sharpp, Hand-1. 

 Bds., Vol. T., p. 214 (1899). 



Adult male. — //««.</ and w-ck rich brouui, hugtJiKufd pi nines donui thf back nf the ucck piirplii-h- 

 black : •n/ipnr jiortiun of t/ir buck yi'i'i/, each feather n-anhed tni eitln-r side ivilh dusky-bron-n : loiver 



