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Bernichi Steph. Sh. Zoo!. 12. 60. 



If hite-minged Antarctic Goose Bromn. Must. Zoo/, pi. 40. 



Bastard Goose Lath. Syn. 6. 440. 



Magellanicce Goose Lath. Syn. 6. 443. 



Painted Goose Lath. Syn. 6. 443. 



Oie des des Malouines Buff. Ois. ix. 69. 



Less. Traite Orn. 627. 

 L' Oie des terres Magellaniques Buff. Ois. ix. p. o$, pi. En. 1006. 



Inhabits the southern extremity of America and the Falkland Isles ; found generally in flights, 

 according to Lesson ; though we are informed by Charles Darwin, Esq. that it is generally found 

 in pairs. 



The changes which the plnmage of the female of this speeies undergoes are very extraordinary. 

 With those of the male we are at present ignorant, as to whether it assumes the white state at once 

 or not. The young female, which is the Anas Picta of authors, first in its approach to the adult 

 state, has the black bars on the back and neck, which become ferruginous ; those on the flanks 

 become darker, and the intermediate spaces white ; the head also becomes ashy grey, and the legs 

 approach to deep orange. Before the time of incubation black bars again appear on the neck, 

 breast, and the upper part of the back, and the ferruginous colouring becomes lighter ; the vent 

 and under tail coverts are in very old birds white ; in younger ones ferruginous, the legs become of 

 a brighter orange, and the head and neck become brown. 



Such are what we believe to be the changes of this bird : for material assistance in its 

 investigation we are indebted to Charles Darwin, Esq. and also for the trachea from "which our 

 figure is taken. The inferior larynx is furnished with a hollow rounded bulb, very similar to that 

 of the common widgeon, but differing in its form, being flattened superiorly, and of a much stronger 

 structure than is usual among the wading ducks. It may at once be distinguished from all the 

 other tracheee with which we are acquainted, by an indented line on the lower surface of the bulb, 

 (Vide our plate.) 





