SUBFAM. VI. CuHENONETTINA. 
GENUS CHLOEPHAGA. 
Salvadori enumerates three genera under this heading :— 
Chloéphaga, Cyanochen, and Chenonetta. Under Chioéphaga 
we find six species: C. magellanica, C. poliocephala, C. 
rubidiceps, C. melanoptera, C. hybrida, and C. inornata, all of 
which, I believe, have been known in captivity. 
MAGELLAN OR UPLAND GOOSE. 
(Chloéphaga magellanica. Bernicla magellantca). 
The importation of this Goose is much more extensive 
than formerly—one dealer alone having recently received 
121 pairs. They may be procured at from £6 to £8 a 
pair, that being less than a third of the price which they 
formerly commanded. When we consider the immense risk 
attending the importation of exotic birds and other animals into 
this country, we realize that prices—which at first sight appear 
exorbitant, as the cost of a pair of fancy Geese—in truth do not 
always recoup the dealer for the immense outlay their first 
introduction occasions. The Magellanic Goose is an inhabitant 
of Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, and is the best known 
of the two species usually seen in this country, being easily 
distinguished by the extraordinary contrast of the plumage in 
the male and female. In their native country, the Magellan 
Geese breed from August to October, Captain Abbott, in a 
letter to the “Ibis” (1861), stating “that he found from seven 
to eight eggs in a nest.” The young birds acquire nearly their 
full plumage in the first year, but are distinguished by the 
