1876.] 



NEOTROPICAL ANATID.E. 



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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, cprite identical. 



a, Male, arid b, Female, Magellanic Geese in the Society's Gardens, bred 

 between B. diqmr <S and B. magcUanica $ . 



