*'^^-J NEOTROPICAL ANATID^. 3g7 



Philippi and Landbeck state that the true patria of their B 

 chaoensis ,s the island of Chiloe, where it breeds. Duriac; the 



rr eisitL'r^'^^^ ^''''-'- ^^ ^--^ ^^ -^ ^^ -- ^^ 



Sfr^-^' ^"""'"S|f "^ obtained this Goose at Oazy Harbour, in the 

 Straits of Magellan, but did not meet with it in the Falkland Islands 



6. Bernicla rubidiceps. 



Bernicla inornata. Gray. Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, t. 24 



Chloephaya rubidiceps, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860. p. 387, t. 163 TFaik- 



^«..r rubidiceps' ^oh\. Mus. des P.-B, Anseres, p. 102. 



UUfBtrophus rubidiceps, Bann. Pr. Ac. Phil. I870; p. 131 



Corpore subtus cum capite toto et collo cimamomeis, pector'e et hy. 



■ Poohondrns mgro transfasciatis, crisso nigra marginato ; supra 

 ^rsescens colh basi crebre nigra et cinnamameotransfasci!ta, 

 interscapulu plumis fascia subterminali nigra nata/s ; dorso 

 tma,uropygiaet cauda nigris viridescente vix tinctis; remiaibus 

 nigris, secundariis et tectricibus alarum minoribus albis tec- 

 trictbus majaribus extus (eneo-viridibus alba terminatis ' lona 

 tata crrc. 23, «te 13-5, caud^ 4-o, rastri a rictu 1% tars If 

 Mt% '^'p^^T'f ^ (Descr. maris ex insulis Falklandicis irl 

 ivius. &. & (x.). Rostra mgro, iridefere nigra, tarsis extus flavia 



Hab. Falkland Islands {Abbott, Leconte). ' 



Ihe "Brent Goose," as this species is called in the Falkland 



Islands, Captani Abbott says, is not so common as the other species 



except m some places in the North Camp, where he saw'^ la S 



numbers in pairs. = 



The male is larger than the female, and frequents the edge of the 



dr'TusfeT 'rr'" "^"'* '^' ''T^' '' ^'"^"S - ^- nest'amongs 

 dry bushes. The eggs are usually five (rarely six) in number and 



ormatu it the T\ " ''^^°''"- \ ^°""^' "'^^ attaintrdress 

 blrSd'o;gf:^^gT;;„r^^^P^ ^'^* ^'^ wing-specmum is dull 

 This species also does well in captivity, many broods having been 

 reared since 1860, when the species was first' introduced Stoth's 

 country alive (Rev. List of Vert. Zool. Soc. 1872. p. 245). 



7. Bernicla Antarctica*. 



Antarctic Goase, Foist. It. pp. 495, 518, und^ 

 * Bernicla inornata. 

 Anas inornatus, King, P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 15 (Straits of Magellan^ 



TeSL'SS; tT?'"'' ^'' "' ^"'"- ''°"''°''- P- '^^ ■' ^'^^^P^' ^'>°^- ^'-bus and 

 Sm,7.> pr^cedenH sed minor, dor^ angustuu framfa^iato ; speculo alari. 



