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this bird does not migrate from the Falkland Islands ; it builds 

 on the small outlying islets. The latter circumstance is supposed 

 to be owing to the fear of the foxes ; and it is perhaps from the 

 same cause that, although very tame by day, they are much 

 the contrary in the dusk of the evening. These Geese live 

 entirely on vegetable matter." 



In the Falkland Islands, however, Abbott subsequently 

 observed them breeding all over the country, as well as on the 

 adjoining islets, and thinks Darwin made a mistake, unless the 

 disappearance of the fox has caused a change in their habits 

 in this respect. 



Dr. Cunningham never saw them any considerable distance 

 from the sea, and frequently observed them on the banks of 

 small lakes of salt and fresh water. 



Personally, I associate the lighter-coloured birds with 

 seeing them in small isolated companies on the open grass-flats. 

 of the lowlands. 



CHLOEPHAGA DISPAR (Philippi and Landbeck) 



Bernicla magellanica (nee Gmeiin), Cassin, u. S. Astron. Exp., a, 



p. 201, pi. xxiv, 1856. 

 Bernicla dispar, PhiUppi and Landbeck, Anales TJniversidad Chile, 



XX, p. 427, 1862 ; lidem, Wiegmann ArcMv Naturgeschichte, i, p. 190, 



1863 ; Sclater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., ii, p. 123, 1889. 

 Chloephaga inornata, Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii, p. 134, 



1895 ; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs Brit. Mus., ii, p. 155, 1902. 



Habitat. — THe Argentine Republic and Central Chili, to Tierra del 

 Fuego, 



Eggs, Cheena Creek Settlement, llth Nov., 1904; ? , ^, $, Useless Baj 

 Settlement, 3rd Feb., 1905. 



Iris and bill — black ; legs and feet, ^ — black, ? — orange. 



However desirous one may be of retaining long-standing names 

 for association's sake, more especially in the case of that talented 



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