108 ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 
In a paper addressed to the “Ibis,” January, 1904, Mr. 
F. E. Blaauw writes :— 
‘* Proceeding to the Maned Goose (Chenonetta jubata), I must 
allow that I have not yet had complete success with this bird. A year ago 
one of my females laid two eggs in April, dropping them about without 
making any nest. These two eggs were placed under a common hen, and, 
after twenty-eight days of incubation, were hatched. Unfortunately, the 
hen killed both the goslings. They were, so far as I could judge from the 
mangled bodies, of a nearly uniform dark grey colour.” 
Writing to me in 1907, Mr. Blaauw reports :— 
‘*Since publishing my paper in the ‘‘ Ibis,” January, 1904, I have 
had complete success with this species. 
‘*In the spring of 1905 a female laid nine eggs in a hollow tree 
stump, and all the eggs hatched. The young in down have the crown of 
head, neck, and whole of the upper-side light slatey-grey ; throat, sides of 
head, foreneck, and whole of under-surface whitish ; a dark line runs from 
the base of the bill through the eye to the neck, and a second one of the 
same colour over the cheeks parallel to the first one; over the shoulder is 
on each side a whitish transverse streak, and white also isa spot on each 
side of the tail; the legs are grey, as also is the bill, which has a brown 
tip. When two weeks old the birds were about half grown, and the 
feathers began to appear on the shoulders and flanks. The legs at this age 
turned into a greenish colour. At three weeks the tail feathers appeared, 
and the pin feathers were growing all over the body, so that in a short time 
the birds became wholly feathered. The legs now also turned into a bluish 
colour. The first plumage resembles that of the adult female, but the dark 
markings are not so well defined. 
‘«Tn the second half of the summer the birds began to moult, and in 
autumn were undistinguishable from the old birds.” 
Male.—Head (which is slightly crested) and neck, brown ; 
the feathers, which are long and ruffled down the back of the 
neck (giving rise to the name of Maned Goose), darker on the 
upper part ; throat and breast white, each feather bordered with 
two irregular brown bands, causing the breast to look as if 
marbled; flanks silver grey, pencilled with wavy black lines ; 
centre of abdomen and under tail-coverts glossy-black ; shoulder 
and upper wing-coverts reddish-grey ; wing-bar green and white ; 
