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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



the bird under consideration. Darwin has nothing on the species in 

 Gould's Report, nor does he allude to the bird in "The Naturalist's 

 Voyage." 



Fig. 219. 



Coscoroba coscoroba, adult male, 7960, P. U. O. C. Details of foot and leg. Reduced. 



Subfamily CHENONETTIN^. 

 Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 128, 1895; Sharpe, Hand- 



List Eds. I. p. 213, 1899. 



Genus CHLOEPHAGA Eyton. 



Type. 



C. inagellanica. 

 C. antarctica. 



Chloepliaga, Eyt. Mon. Anat. p. 13 (1838) . 

 Tcenidiastes, Rchnb. Av. Syst. Nat. p. ix (1822) . 

 Oressochen, Bann. Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1870, 



p. 131 . . . . . . . . . C. melanoptera. 



Chloetrophus, Bann. Pro. Acad. Nat. Philad. 1870, p. 131. C. poliocephala. 

 ChloopJiaga, Sund. Meth. Nat. Av. disp. Tent. p. 145 (1872). 

 Tcenidiesthes, Heine, Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 342 (1890). 



Geographical Range. — Peculiar to South America. 



Chloephaga melanoptera (Eyton). 



? Otis chilensis, Mol. Sagg. Stor. Nat. Chile, p. 260 (1782), 2nd ed. p. 

 219 (1810). 



