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PLATE 



XL. 



THE WHITE WINGED ANT-ARCTIC GOOSE. 



GENUS ANAS LIN. SYST. 1 94. DUCK, PEN. GEN. BIRDS, 89. 



SIZE, 

 BILL, 

 HEAD, 



BACK, 



WINGS, 



TAIL, 



LEGS 



PLACE, 



length three feet four inches. 



fmall and dufky. 



NECK, and whole under fide of the body, of 

 a fnowy whitenefs. 



upper part barred with black and white, the 

 reft white. 



COVERTS, white, secondaries marked with 

 one broad band of dufky, another of white, 

 with a green speculum, primaries dufky. 



middle feathers white, gloffed with green, the 

 others white. 



black. 



The Falkland Ifles. This is the kind called 

 by the French bustards. Bougainville's 

 Voyage p. 59, and pernetty's Voyage 

 p. 182, 185, 204, 213, 245, 246. 



