1876.] 



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with other Chilian animals, a pair of this form of the Magellanic 

 Goose. The female unfortunately died ; but the male was lent to a 

 correspondent, who returned to the Gardens in its place, in November 

 1875, a pair of young birds, bred between it and a female B. magel- 

 lanica vera, of which we exhibit a drawing. The male, it will be 

 observed, is not quite so strongly barred as in the pure B. dispar, 

 but presents well-defined black edgings on the under plumage. The 

 females of the two forms are, so far as we can see, quite identical. 



a, Male, and h, Female, Magellanic G-eese in the Society's Gardens, bred 

 between B. dispar cj and B. magellanica $ . 



