PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I 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^E. 



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

 List Bds. I. p. 213, 1899. 



Genus CHLOEPHAGA Eyton. 



Type. 



Chloephaga, Eyt. Mon. Anat. p. 13 (1838) . . . C. magellanica. 

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

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



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



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

 Chloophaga, 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). 



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

 219 (1810). 



