ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. 123 
thrown into water, with occasionally a little maize and 
buckwheat. 
Male.—The sides of head, and front of throat, white; a 
ring round the eye and collar round the neck, reddish-brown ; 
a broad band of the same passes down the nape of the neck; 
upper body grey with black markings; under parts reddish- 
yellow; breast and abdomen light fawn colour with a large 
chestnut patch in the middle of the breast ; wing armed with 
a short spur; flight feathers metallic black, as is also the tail ; 
beak red, with grey tip ; foot and leg yellowish-pink ; eye bright 
yellow-orange. 
Female.—Similar to male, but smaller and colours less 
defined ; eye yellow. 
Young.—Yellowish-brown when in down. First feathers 
closely resemble adult plumage; eye gravel-yellow. 
Egg.—Greyish-white or buffy-white ; thick shelled, round 
and smooth; four to eight in number. February—March. 
Incubation, four weeks. 
Nest Down.—Short, uniform pale mouse grey. 
ORINOCO GOOSE. 
(Chenalopex jubatus). 
This species must not be confounded with the Australian 
Wood-duck (Chenonetta jubata), sometimes improperly styled 
““Maned Goose,” the bird now under consideration being 
allied to the Egyptian Goose, and like it, armed with a knob 
on the wing. It is an inhabitant of South America, being 
found upon the Amazon River. Examples of this Goose have 
existed in the Zoological Gardens since 1830, but it has not 
bred of late years. 
