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are very minute, but grow broader as they proceed downwards : 

 middle of the back plain black : wing coverts white : on the 

 bend of the wing a blunt knob : fpeculum green, edged out- 

 wardly with white : greater quills black : tail white : vent greenilh 

 white : legs yellow. 



Inhabits Chriftmas Sound, in Terra del Fitego *. 



Place. 



L'Oie des terres Magellaniques, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 68. — PL Enl. 1006. 



T ENGTH twenty-four inches. Bill Ihort and black; the 

 upper mandible a little bent at the end: head and neck fer- 

 ruginous brown : the beginning of the back, the breaft, and all 

 the under parts to the vent, barred ferruginous and black ; near 

 the vent grey : the lower part of the back and tail dufky : the 

 wing coverts white : quills dufky ; the fecondaries tipped with 

 white, forming a bar on the wing : legs yellow : claws black, 

 " Inhabits the Straits of Magalhaen. 

 A fpecimen of this is in the Mufeum of the late Dr. JVilliatn 

 Hunter. It is poffible that the above may prove the Painted 

 Goofe, mentioned by Commodore Byron, found by him in the 

 Straits of Magalhaen f ; but as he fays no more on the fubject, we 

 can only fuggeft it. 



MAGELLANIC- 

 G. 



Description.. 



Place* 



J ENGTH twenty-eight inches. Bill fmall, under an inch and 



a half in length ■, colour black : irides afh-colour : head and 



neck white, inclining to aih-colour at the hindhead : the fea- 



• Dr. Forjier obferves, that the flefh is fetid, and not fit to be eaten. See 

 Foj. i. p. 495. 518. — See alfo Fernet. Voy. ii. p. 13. — Cook's Foy. ii. p. 1 86. 

 + Hawkefw, Voy. i. p. 47. 



3. L 0- thers' 



PAINTED G r 



Description,. 



