104 BIRDS OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



111 lean condition, this specimen weighed 2 pounds 6 ounces ; 

 the stomach contained about 3 ounces of strong-smelling fresh- 

 water larvae. 



MARECA SIBILATRIX (Poeppig) 



Pato del piCO pequefiO, Azara, Pdxaros, Paraguay y La Plata, iii, 



p. 434, 1806. 

 Anas Sibilatrix, Poeppig, in Frorieps Notizen, xxv, No. 529, p. 10, 



1829. 

 Mareca Chiloensis, TSyton, Monograph AnatidoB, p. 117, pi. xxi, 1838 ; 



Ahhott, Ibis, p. 160, 1861. 

 Mareca sibilatrix, Durnford, ibis, pp. 41, 192, 1877, p. 401, 1878 ; 



Sclater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., ii, p. 135, 1889 ; Oustalet, Miss. Sci. 



Cap Horn, Ois., p. 210, 1891 ; Salvadori, Gat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvii, 



p. 236, 1896. 



Habitat. — Paraguay, the Argentine Republic, Chili and Chiloe Island, to 

 Tierra del Fuego ; the Falkland Islands. 



$ , San Sebastian Settlement, 28th Oct. ; ^ , Useless Bay Settlement, 

 3rd Nov., 1904. 



Iris— brown ; bill — dark silver grey ; legs — silver grey. 



All expeditions appear to record the beautiful Chiloe Widgeon 

 with the exception of Darwin. 



The French Mission to Cape Horn met with it no further 

 south than Rio Gallegos, in Patagonia. 



It is a summer visitor, arriving the last of its family. The 

 first examples seen by me were a company of five at San 

 Sebastian Settlement, Oct. 22nd, from which date I observed a 

 daily increase in its numbers. By the beginning of November 

 these birds were plentiful on the lagoons at the head of Useless 

 Bay. They breed in the island to some extent to my certain 

 knowledge ; but, whether generally or even freely, I am not 

 prepared to say. 



The Widgeon is the most sporting and handsome of the 



