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the smoke curling up peacefully from the kitchen chimney. A grove of 

 large old cherry trees, in which the house was embowered, added to the 

 charm of the picture ; and as we rode down to the gate we noticed the 

 fully ripe cherries glowing like live coals amid the deep green foliage." 

 (Huds. "Idle Days in Patagonia," 1893, p. 17.) 



Genus COSCOROBA Reichenbach. 



Type. 



CoscoFoba, Reichenb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. x (1852) ; Salvad. 



Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 42 (1898); Sharpe, 



Hand-List Bds. I. p. 210 (1899) C. coscoroba. 



Pseudolor, G. R. Gray, MSS., fide. G. R. Gr. Cat. Gen. 



& Sub. Gen. Bds. p. 122 (1855) C coscoroba. 



Pseitdocycmts, Sundev. Meth. Nat. Av. disp. Tent. p. 147 



(1872) C. coscoroba. 



Geographical Range. — Peculiar to Southern South America. 



Coscoroba coscoroba (Molina). 



Anas coscoroba, Mol. Sagg. Stor. Chile, p. 207 (1782), p. 323 (1789), p. 

 198 (18 10); Eyd. et Gerv. Mag. de Zool. 1836, p. 36; iid. Voy. 

 Favourite, Ois. p. 62 (1839). 



Anser coscoroba, Bonn. Enc. Meth. I. p. 112 (1790). 



Ganso bianco, Azara, Apunt. III. p. 406 (1805). 



Anser candidns, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXIII. p. 331 (1819) ; id. 

 Enc. Meth. I. p. 351 (1820). 



Cygnus anatoides, King, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 15 (Straits of Magellan) ; Cun- 

 ningh. Ibis, 1868, p. 488. 



Cygints hyperboreus, D'Orb. (nee Pall.) Voy. Amer. Merid. Itin. II. p. 

 304 (1839). 



Olor coscoroba, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Part iii. p. 131 (1844). 



Cygnus coscoroba. Gray, Gen. B. III. p. 610, pi. 131 (1844) ; Reichenb 

 Syn. Av. Natatores, pi. 106 fig. 966 (1845) ; Des Murs in Gay Hist 

 Nat. Chil. Zool. I. p. 446 (1847) I Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 27 (1847) 

 Hartl. Naum. 1853, p. 222 (Valdivia) ; Scl. P. Z. S. i860, p. 388 

 Burm. J. f. O. i860, p. 266; id. La Plata Reis. II. p. 512 (1861 

 Parang) ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 159 (Falkland Isl.) ; Pelz. Reis, 



