122 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Bernicla dispar, Philippi et Landb., sp. nov., which is the 

 "Gansillo" of the Chilians, is stated to be common near San- 

 tiago in winter, and to breed in the middle provinces of Chili, 

 on the Cordilleras, descending into the plains in winter. It 

 is figured by Cassin in the * Zoology of the United States 

 Naval Astronomical Expedition ' (pi. 24) under the name B. ma- 

 gellanica. 



We believe Messrs. Philippi and Laudbeck to be quite right 

 in separating this bird from the true B. magellanica, in which the 

 male is unspotted white below. There is a Chilian bird in the 

 British Museum exactly corresponding with their description, 

 except that the rect rices are all black. B. magellanica vera is 

 found in the Falkland Islands, whence the Zoological Society of 

 London obtained the specimens which now breed in their 

 Gardens every year. It extends, however, over the southern 

 part of South America, one example, marked " Chiloe," being in 

 the British Museum. 



Bernicla chiloensis, Messrs. Philippi and Landbeck's third 

 species, is stated to be very common in the Island of Chiloe, 

 where it is called " Canquen" ; but also occurs as far north as 

 Valdivia, from February to April. Our authors are quite correct 

 in considering this species as distinct from the Anas inornata of 

 King, although it is the bird figured in Mr. G. R. Gray's ' Genera 

 of Birds ' under that name, and has also been called by Gray 

 Bernicla inornata. But it was not necessary to propose a new 

 name for this unfortunate Goose, as it has also been called polio- 

 cephala by Mr. Gray in his Catalogue of the specimens of Anseres 

 in the British Museum, and has long been well known as the 

 Ashy-headed Goose [Chloephaga poliocephala) in all the Zoolo- 

 gical Gardens of Europe. 



Bernicla antarctica (Messrs. Philippi and Landbeck's fourth 

 species of Chilian Goose) appears in Chili only in winter, being 

 occasionally found in the harbours of Corral and Arique, in the 

 province of Valdivia. It is singular that while in this species, as 

 in Chloephaga dispar and C magellajiica, the sexes are so differ- 

 ently coloured that they run the risk of being considered different 

 species, in C. poliocephala an^ C. melanoptera the male cannot 

 be distinguished from the female except by size. This is likewise 



