102 BIRDS OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



Is not this, rather than C. dispar^ the " Painted Goose " 

 which Commodore Byron mentions afforded the survivors of the 

 " Wao'er " means of subsistence in 1740 in the Guaianeco 

 Ishmds, as he describes it as " having plumage variegated with 

 the most lively colours"? 



Neither Kins^ nor Darwin record this bird. 



Abbott says of it : — " During the three years I have been 

 in East Falkland I have never seen but three, and these were 

 met witli singly, at different times, amongst flocks of the Upland 

 Goose {C. magellanica)^ 



On the Patagonian mainland, Cunningham's experience was 

 that it was " common on the eastern portion of the Strait and 

 tamer than the Upland Goose." 



In the Province of Buenos Ayres, Durnford says of it : — 

 " Common in winter, about fifty miles to the south of the city ; 

 and I observed it last year, when we had unusually severe 

 weather, within thirty miles of Buenos Ayres ; it rarely, however, 

 comes as far north as this." In Central Patagonia, he records 

 it a " winter visitor to the Chupat Valley, arri^dng and 

 departing with B. ma/jellanica, and always associating with that 

 species. It nests about Lake Colguape in the same places as 

 B. mageUamcar 



ANAS CRISTATA (Gmelin) 



Crested Duck, LatMvi, Synopsis Birds, iii, p. 543, 1785. 



Anas cristata, Gmelin, Systema Naturce, i, p. 540, 1788; Abbott, Ibis, 



p. 160, 1861 ; Cunningham, Nat. Hist. Strait Magellan, p. 154, 1871 ; 



Oustalet, Miss. Sci. Cap. Horn, Ois., p. 199, 1891 ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., xxvii, p. 216, 1895. 

 Anas SpeCUlaroideS, King, Zool. Joum., iv, p. 98, 1828. 



Habitat. — Central Peru to Cape Horn ; the Falkland Islands. 



(J, Useless Bay Settlement, 12th Sept., 1904. 



Iris — crimson ; bill — dark grey ; legs and feet — grey. 



