
666 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [ Nov. | 
5. CHUNGA BURMEISTERI. (Plate XXXVI.) 
The acquisition of living examples of this recently discovered 
second form of the peculiar Neotropical family Cariamede is of spe- 
cial interest. 
Burmeister’s Cariama was discovered by the eminent naturalist 
whose name it bears in the provinces of Catamarca and Tucuman, in 
the north of the Argentine Republic, in 1859, and was first described 
by Dr. Hartlaub in this Society’s ‘ Proceedings’*. Soon afterwards 
Reichenbach+ gave the species the generic rank which it seems 
entitled to, and called it Chunga burmeisteri. As this remarkable 
bird is very little known, and specimens of it are very rare, the ac- 
companying drawing (Plate XXXVI.) will be acceptable. We may 
hope that at a later period some one will undertake a special com- 
parison of its structure with that of Cariama, which has been so 
well worked out by Burmeister ¢. 
6. Cygnus coscorosa, Mol.; Gray and Mitchell, Gen. of Birds, 
iii. pl. 166. 
These are the first examples of this beautiful little Swan that have 
reached us alive. They were in poor condition when they first 
arrived, but are now in good health, and may, we hope, breed next 
spring; so that there is some chance of the introduction of this fine 
species into our ornamental waters. 
7. Meropiana PEposaca§. (Plate XXXVII.) 
A single male of this fine Duck was received in 1867]. From the 
present collection we have obtained three pairs, so that there is 
every hope for the continuance of the species. 
8. DAFILA sprnicauDA. (Plate XXXVIITI.) 
There has been a good deal of confusion about this elegant species 
of Pintail, of which we have now for the first time received living 
specimens. Dr. Burmeister has been inclined to consider that there 
were two allied species—D. spinicauda, from the east of the Argen- 
tine Republic, and D. oxyura, from Mendoza, Chili, and Peru (La 
Plata-Reise, ii. p. 515); but, as Mr. Salvin and I have already 
stated (P. Z. S. 1869, p. 157), we believe that he has been in error 
upon this point. D. spinicauda is closely allied in shape and form 
to the so-called Bahama Duck (D. bahamensis), which has long been 
an inhabitant of the Society’s Gardens, but is readily distinguishable 
~ by its yellow-marked bill and other peculiarities. The species, 
which has never been figured, is well represented in the accompany- 
ing drawing (Plate XXXVIII.). 
* P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 335. 
+ Handb. d. Sp. Orn. Tauben, p. 159. 
+ “Beitriige z. Naturgeschichte d; Seriema,” Abh. Nat. Ges. Halle, i. p. 11 
1854). 
‘ § Anas peposaca, Vieill. Enc. Méth. p. 357. Metopiana peposaca, Scl. et Salv. 
P. Z. S. 1868, p. 146. 
|| See P. Z. S. 1867, p. 687. 
