AVES ANATID^e. 421 



Back : Mantle brownish black. Scapulars brownish black. Lower back, 

 rump and upper tail-coverts white. 



Tail: White. 



Wings : Lower and median upper wing-coverts, white ; greater wing- 

 coverts dark metallic green, each feather tipped with white and with a 

 black band between the green and white parts, the green forming a 

 defined speculum. Primary coverts and primaries black; secondaries 

 white ; tertials brownish black like the back. 



Lower parts : Breast, abdomen, sides and flanks deep dull black, barred 

 with white. Vent and under tail-coverts white. Under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white. 



Iris: Brown. 



Bill : Flesh color. 



Feet and legs : Yellowish brown. 



Geographical Range. Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland 

 Islands. Straits of Magellan and on the Pacific Coast north to Chiloe. 



The Antarctic Goose was not secured or recorded by the naturalists of 

 the Princeton Expeditions ; it is, however, a common bird in portions of 

 the Straits of Magellan, and on the Pacific Coast, as stated above. It does 

 not appear to occur on the Atlantic Coast, but there are many records of 

 it in the interior of Patagonia and Chili, and it also has been observed on 

 the pampas of Argentina. The material in the British Museum has formed 

 a basis for the descriptions given. 



"Male: Port Henry. 



"Female: Port Henry, February 1879. 



"Pull.: Straits of Magellan, November 1879. Eyes dark grey; bill 

 black; legs and feet dark brown." (Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 13.) 



632, male 



633, female 



634, young 



635, young J 



" Eyes brown, feet yellow ; bill of male black, of female flesh-colour ; 

 bill of young dark ; feet grey brown ; stomachs had pieces of small stones, 

 shells, and sea-weeds." 



736, female, Falkland Islands. 



Penguin Islands, Messier Channel. 



