100 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
shoulder and under-side of the body, below the wing ; the head 
is rather flat, and neck short; legs and bill black; wing-bar 
green. 
Female.—Ground colour, clear chestnut fawn, with 
black bands, the body evenly barred with black ; neck and head 
chestnut ; legs orange-yellow ; shoulders white ; wing-bar green. 
Young.—In down, ashy-brown ; throat and upper breast 
white ; short bill black; legs black. In first feather both sexes 
have the head and the upper part of the neck ashy-brown, below 
greyish-white, barred with dark brown; thighs and under-parts 
white ; bill black ; legs blackish-blue. 
Egg.—Creamy-white ; four to eight in number. April— 
May. Incubation, thirty to thirty-three days. 
Nest Down.—Small ; brownish-white ; uniform greyish- 
white, interspersed with small barred feathers. 
CHILIAN GOOSE. 
(Chloiphaga hybrida. Bernicla dispar). 
This Bernicle is usually offered for sale by dealers under 
the name of “Second Species of Magellan Goose,” at prices 
varying from £7 to £10 the pair. The first specimens of 
this Bernicle were received by the Zoological Society in 1871, 
by purchase from M. Weisshaupt, but the female unfortunately 
dying soon afterwards, the male was mated with a female Upland 
Goose (Chloéphaga magellanica) which produced a pair of 
young birds exhibiting in the male the characteristic stripes on 
throat and under body of C. dispar. This species has been 
very successfully bred on the Continent, and is much to be 
desired as an inmate of a collection of waterfowl, being gentle 
in habits and considerably more ornamental than C. mage/lanica. 
