1870.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 667 
9. MareECA CHILOENSIS (King). 
The Chiloe Widgeon also, although well known in collections, is 
new to our series of living Anatide, and forms a fine addition to 
them. It is sufficiently well figured by Eyton in his ‘ Monograph’ 
(pl. 31). The sexes (contrary to the usual rule in this section of 
the Anatide) are coloured nearly alike. 
10. GeocLemMMys ANNULATA, Gray. 
This Tortoise was described and figured by Dr. Gray in our 
‘Proceedings’ (1860, p. 231, t. 29), from specimens obtained by 
Mr. Fraser on the coast of Ecuador. The present example was 
probably brought to Santiago from the coast of Peru or Ecuador, as 
Gay (Fauna Chilena, ii. p. 8) and other authorities assure us that no 
species of Chelonian is found in Chili. 
11. Tesrupo ELEPHANTOPUS, Harlan. 
Dr. Gray has identified one of the two Tortoises which we obtained 
in the present coilection with the above-named species, originally de- 
scribed by Harlan as coming from the Galapagos Islands. The present 
individual was probably imported into Chili from the same quarter as 
the Geoclemmys annulata, as Mr. Cope (Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1868, p. 96) 
has recorded the occurrence of the species on the coast of Ecuador. 
12. Testupo curLensis, Gray. 
Testudo (Gopher) chilensis, Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. vi. 
p. 190. 
Dr. Gray has lately described this Land-tortoise, of which we re- 
ceived two specimens, as a new species, and has proposed to call it 
Testudo chilensis. I do not profess to be specially acquainted with the 
Testudinata; but I must observe that, if this species be really new, 
Dr. Gray has chosen a most unfortunate name for it ; for, as already 
above mentioned, the best authorities deny the existence in Chili of 
any animals of this order; and, as we know several other species in 
the present collection were imported from different parts of the 
South-American continent, it is, of course, obvious that the same 
may have been the case with the present animals. Now Duméril and 
Bibron (Erpétologie Générale, ii. p. 74) record the occurrence on the 
Rio Negro, in Northern Patagonia, of a species of Tortoise ( Testudo 
stellata), to which the present animal, according to Dr. Gray, is very 
nearly allied; and Burmeister (La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 521) tells us 
that this 7’. stellata is common in the vicinity of Mendoza and all 
over the neighbouring pampas of the Argentine Republic. I have 
no doubt whatever, therefore, that the present Tortoises are from 
La Plata, and belong to the species called Testudo stellata by D’Or- 
bigny and Burmeister. It is very probable that Dr. Gray may be 
right in separating the species from 7. stellata of Africa; but it 
would have been better to have called it by some other name*. 
* For further remarks on this Tortoise, see Aisn. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. vi. 
p- 470. 
