92 BIRDS OF TIEREA DEL FUEGO 



COSCOROBA CANDIDA (Vieillot) 



GanSO bianco, Azara, Pdxaros, Varaguay y La Plata, iii, p. 406, 1805. 

 Anser CandiduS, Vieillot, Nouv. Bid. d'Hist. Nat., xxiii, p. 331, 1816. 

 CygnuS COSCOroba, Abbott, Ibis, p. 159, 1861 ; Durnford, Ibis, p. 41, 



1877, p. 400, 1878. 

 COSCOroba Candida, Sclater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., ii, p. 126, 



1889 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii, p. 42, 1895. 



Habitat. — Paraguay, the Argentine Republic, and Chili, to Tierra del 

 Fuego ; the Falkland Islands. * 



^, Gente Grande Lagoons, 24th Feb., 1905. 

 Iris and bill — dark lilac ; legs — lilac. 



During my travels in Tierra del Fuego I saw very few 

 Coscoroba Swans, and these only on the same lagoon as that 

 frequented by the Black-necked Swan. 



Mr. Ernest Hobbs informs me they are in thousands 

 in the neighbourhood of Gente Grande where he resides. 

 Hearing I had not secured a Yfhite Swan, he most kindly shot 

 this bird and brought it to me in Punta Arenas, in time to 

 enable me to skin it before putting to sea in the " Asuncion 

 de Larrinaga " on my way home. 



There is no record of this Swan by Darwin or the French 

 Mission to Cape Horn. 



In the Falkland Islands it appears to be very scarce, as 

 Abbott states Mare Harbour is the only part where he ever saw 

 or heard of it, and that here a flock of eight or ten was 

 generally to be found. 



In the Chupat Valley, Patagonia, Durnford met with 

 considerable numbers, but not so numerous as C. nigricoUis. 

 On his last visit, and on his journey to the lakes, he did not 

 observe it at all. 



This specimen weighed 11 pounds 13 ounces. There was 

 nothing in the stomach except a very little sand. 



