20. cnLOi;PHAGA. 137 



upper wing-coverts metallic green, tipped with white ; bastard- 

 wing, primaries, and primary-coverts black ; secondaries white ; 

 tertials and scapulars brown-grey ; tail black : bill black ; irides 

 almost black ; feet yellow, tinged with blackish exteriorly. Total 

 length about 2;} inches, wing 13-5, tail 4-5, cnlmen 1-5, bill from 

 the commissure 1-5, tarsus 2-5. 



Female. Similar, but somewhat smaller. 



Young birds of the first year assimilate in plumage to the adults, 

 except that the speculum of the wing is of dull black instead of 

 glossy green (Ahhott). 



Hah. Falkland Islands. 



«. Ad. sk. Falkland Islands {Leconfe). Salvin-Godman CoU. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Falkland Islands. Tweeddale Coll. 



d. S ad. sk. Falkland Islands, July. McConnick Bequest. 



c. Ad. sk. Falkland Islands. Antarctic Exped. 



(Type of the species.) 

 /. Imm. sk. Falkland Islands. Antarctic Exped. 



(/, h. cJ ad. sk. St. Salvador Bay, Falkland Antarctic Exped. 



et ad. St. Is. 



i. Skeleton. Falklands. Zool. Soc. 



6. Chloephaga poliocephala. 



Bernicla inornata, G. R. Gv. {nee Kinij) Gen. B. iii. p. 607, n. 6 

 (svn. emend.), pi. IGo (1844) ; Rchnb. Si/n. Av., Natatores, t. 98. 

 f.'040 (wee 947) (ex Grnij) (1845); Hcirtl. Erst. Xachlr. Vor/el- 

 samml. p. 19, n. 216 (1846) ; Cass. Tin. St. E.ipl. Exp., Mamm. 

 ^- Orn. p. 337 (1858; (Tierra del Fuego & Falkland Isl.) ; Sclat. 

 Ibis, 1859, p. 327. 



Chloephaga poliocephala, G. li. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 127 

 (part., specini. a, b) (1844) (descr. nulla): Sclat. P. Z. S. 1857, 

 p'. 128, 1858, p. 290 : G»,dd, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 96 ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 

 1859, p. 206 (incubation), 1861, p. 46 (Falkland Isl.) ; Abbntt, 

 Ibis, 1861, p. 159 ; Sclat. Ibis, 1864, p. 122 ; id. P. Z. S. 1867, 

 p. 335 ; Sclat. Sf Sale. Ibis, 1868, p. 189 (Oazy Harbour) ; Cunninc/h. 

 Ibis, 1869, p. 233; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 029 (breeding) ; Ei/t. 

 Si/n. Aiiat. p. 29 (1869) ; ,'Sclat. 4- Salv. Ibis, 1870, p. 499 (Port 

 firappler) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. lf<71, p. 261 (note) ; G. R. Gr. Hand- 

 list, iii. p. 77, n. 105S9 (1871 ) ; Sclat. ^- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. 

 p, 128,n. 2 (part.) (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 436 (Gray Harbour, 

 Tom Harbour) ; Giql. Viae/tj. Magent. i)p. 933, 937, 943, 946 

 (1876) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 813 ; SImfeldt, Pr. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. X. pp. 383-384 (skull) (1887). 



? Anser leucopterus, Licht. (>iec Gm.) in Forst. Descr. An. p. 334 

 (1844). 



? Chloephaga leucoptera, Held, (nee Gm.) Xom. Av. p. 100 (1854). 



Chloephaga inornata, Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 648, n. 24 (1856). 



Bernicla polincejihala, iSV7«^ Ibis, 1859, p. 328 ; Pelz. Reise Nuvara, 

 Vof/. p. 13t) (1865) ; Burnt. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 366 (Bahia Blanca) ; 

 Seiat. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 549 (Uio Ne^ro) ; Sclat. S,- Sale. P. Z. S. 

 1876, p. 366; Burn ford. Ibis, 1878^ p. 400 (Centr. Patagonia); 

 Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. -lOG ; Scl. .S' Sale. To,/. Chad., Birds, p. 107 

 (1881); Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p'. 422, n. 962 (1883); 



