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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. 



Coscoroba, 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. 



Pseudocycnus, Sundcv. 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 (1810); 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 candidus, Vicill. 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. 

 Cygnus hyperboreus, D'Orb. (nee Pall.) Voy. Amir. Mdrid. 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) I Des Murs in Gay Hist 



Nat Chil. Zool. I. p. 446 (1847) 5 Haiti. Ind. Azara, p. 27 (1847) ; 



Haiti. Naum. 1853, p. 222 (Valdivia) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 388; 



Burm. J. f. O. 1860, p. 266; id. La Plata Reis. II. p. 512 (1861 : 



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



