228 duck. 



9.— COSCOROBA GOOSE. 



Anas Coscoroba, Ind. Orn, ii. 835. Gm. Lin. i. 503. Molin. Chil. 207. Id. Fr. ed. 213. 

 Coscoroba Goose, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 345. 



ACCORDING to Molina, this Goose is of a large size. The bill 

 and legs red; eyes of a fine black ; the plumage wholly white; but 

 he does not mention whether the female differs in colour. 



Inhabits Chili, and is valuable for its extreme docility and 

 tameness in confinement, and particularly by attaching itself to the 

 person who supplies it with food. 



10— ANTARCTIC GOOSE. 



Anas antarctica, Ind. Orn. ii. 835. Gm. Lin. i. 505. 



Antarctic Goose, Gen. Syn. vi. 442. Forst. Voy. i. 499. 518. Pernet. Voy. ii. 13. 

 Cook's Voy. ii. 186. 



THIS is smaller than a Tame Goose; weight sixteen pounds. 

 Bill narrow, short, and black ; the whole plumage of a dazzling 

 snowy whiteness. The female has a reddish flesh-coloured bill ; 

 head, neck, and body, black, crossed with transverse white lines ; 

 those of the head and neck very minute, but grow broader as they 

 proceed downwards ; the middle of the back plain black ; wing 

 coverts white ; on the bend of the wing a blunt knob; speculum 

 green, edged outwardly with white ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits Christmas Sound, in Terra del Fuego. 



11— BUSTARD GOOSE. 



Anas leucoptera, Ind. Orn. ii. 835. Gm. Lin. i. 505. 

 L'Oie des Malouines, Buf. ix. 69. 

 Outavde, Hist, de la Louis, ii. 113 ? 



