MAGELLANIC BERNICLE. 



(Bernicla Magellanica.) 



^v.Jerrugineo-Jusca, corpora anteriore subtusque transversim va- 



riegato, tectricibusjasciaqiic alarum albis. 

 Rusty-brown Bernicle with the anterior part of the body and 



beneath transversely variegated, the coverts and a fascia on the 



wing white. 

 Anas Magellanica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 505. Lath. 2nd. Oni. 



2. 836. 

 L'Oie des terres Magellaniques. Buff. Hist. Xat. Ois. 9. 68. 



Buff.Pl.EnL 1006. 

 Magellanic Goose. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 443. 



INHABITS the Straits of Magellan : length two 

 feet : beak black ; short : the head and neck are rusty 

 brown : the upper part of the back, the breast, and 

 all the under parts of the body to the vent are barred 

 with ferruginous and black ; near the vent grey : the 

 lower part of the back and the tail are dusky : the 

 wing-coverts are white : the quills dusky ; the se- 

 condaries tipped with white, which forms a bar of 

 that colour on the wing : the legs are yellow : the 

 claws black. 



