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mottled colour of their feet, and plumage somewhat less bright, 
They moult their wing feathers in the second year, and are then 
found in large flocks near the sea coast ; being disturbed, they 
run down to the salt water, as they are unable to fly in this 
condition. 
Dr. Cunningham, who accompanied an. expedition to the 
Straits of Magellan as naturalist to H.M.S. “Nassau,” from 
1866 to 1869, states that the Upland Goose is very plentiful in 
the Falkland Islands and on the lower slopes of the Chilian 
Andes, as well as in the Straits, where it breeds in numbers. 
He remarks that these birds allowed the sportsman to approach 
within a few yards without taking alarm, one pair running over 
the ground without rising on the wing. 
The Governor of the Falkland Islands (Mr. Moore) 
depatched the first pair of these Bernicles to the Zoological 
Society in 1857, another couple following five years later. 
They have since bred with tolerable regularity in the Gardens, 
placing the nest by preference under a low bush hidden by 
tufts of herbage ; being also reared with great facility on the 
Continent. 
M. de Montlézun, a successful breeder of this species, 
found that his birds paired during February, the female not 
depositing her eggs till April, when she set herself upon seven ; 
leaving them two or three times a day to feed and bathe. This 
gentleman states that the goslings left the nest at twenty-four 
hours old, being covered with grey down, whitish on the under 
parts, with jet black feet and bill. The food which appeared to 
agree with them best, was a mixture of chopped lettuce, yolk of 
egg mixed with maize meal, and small millet moistened, the yolk 
of egg being discontinued after ten days. At the end of a 
fortnight he observed the colour of the birds’ legs change, those 
of the males remaining black, while those of the female 
