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I think it probable that at the first moult the young 

 male moults all his feathers except the large flightfeathers 

 whith are retained untill the second moult. 



After this first moult the young male accordingly is 

 entirely white except the black large flightfeathers. Bill 

 and legs have then attained their black and respectively 

 yellov^ colour. 



I saw a few males in this stage and this would quite 

 agree with what happens with other young geese of the 

 genus Chloëphaga. These at the first moult, shed all their 

 feathers except the large flightfeathers. 



I saw a good many of these geese during my exploration 

 of this coast and found then very tame so that it was so 

 much easier to observe them. 



A native of the place who after a while came to me, 

 told me again as I had heard in the south that these 

 Ka'iks are always along the sea and feed on the seaweed 

 called "lutche". 



The friendly native finding me interested in the geese 

 told me that I could buy a young bird which was kept 

 alive in the village, if I liked to do so. 



Unmindful of all the difficulties that would fall to my 

 lot if I should attempt to carry it home I bought the bird. 



It was very wild and was kept in a small enclosed garden. 

 It proved to be a young male that had not moulted and 

 it was featherlight. 



The good woman, who had kept it, told me that it fed 

 on anything, but as she also told me, that I must be sure 

 to take a lot of seaweed (lutche) with me, I was rather 

 sceptical of the truth of the first assertion and I after- 

 wards had the greatest difficulty to induce the bird to eat 

 anything else but lutche. 



On the beach were again great masses of Giant Seaweed 

 and near the coast in damp places some very fine dark 

 green leathery Ferns. 



Towards the end of the afternoon I went back to the 

 ship with my goose in an old box half full of seaweed. 



On board, the friendly captain offered me an empty 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXV. 



