ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. IOI 
It is an inhabitant of Central Chili, and is recorded by 
Burmeister to frequent the districts southwards of Buenos 
Ayres. Like its congeners, this Goose lives in small flocks, 
seldom approaching the sea, and is a vegetable feeder. The 
only marked distinction between the males of C. magellanica 
and C. dispar consists fin the black bars on the breast and 
under-body of the latter. 
In a paper addressed to the “ Ibis,” of January, 1904, Mr. 
F. E. Blaauw, writing on the Black-Banded Goose ( Chloéphaga 
dispar), says :— 
‘*A pair of these birds at Gooilust laid six eggs, which were all 
hatched. In the goslings of this species the differences in colour correspond 
with those of Chloéphaga magellanica, but are intensified. Some of the 
goslings are most brilliantly marked with black and white, whilst others are 
almost entirely black. These striking colours, however, soon fade, so that 
afcer the goslings are a week old, much of their brilliancy is gone.” 
Male.—Head, neck, and shoulders white, barred on the 
back and breast with broad dark bands; wing and tail-coverts 
white ; flight feathers and tail black; legs and bill black. 
Female.—Similar to female of Chloéphaga magellanica. 
Young.—In first feather, head and neck brownish-grey ; 
under-body greyish-white, indistinctly barred; legs greenish- 
black. 
Egg.—White. April—May. Incubation about four 
weeks. 
ASHY-HEADED OR CHESTNUT-BREASTED GOOSE. 
(Chloéphaga poliocephala. Bernicla poliocephala). 
This rare Goose was first acquired alive by the Zoological 
Society in 1851, a pair of these birds having been purchased 
from Lord Derby’s Knowsley Menagerie, which subsequently 
