duck. 229 



White-winged Antarctic Goose, Brown, HI. pi. 40. 



Sea Goose, Phil. Trans, lxvi. 104. 



Bustard Goose, Gen. Syn. vi. 440. Boug. Voy. p. 59. 



LENGTH from thirty to forty inches. Bill scarcely two inches 

 long, and black ; head, neck, lesser wing coverts, and under parts 

 of the body, white; lower part of the neck behind, and as far as 

 the middle of the back, crossed with numerous dusky black lines ; 

 sides over the thighs the same ; the greater wing coverts black, 

 tipped with white, forming a bar of white on the wing; at the bend 

 a blunt knob; second quills part black, part white; prime ones 

 dusky black ; speculum dark green ; the two middle tail feathers 

 black, the others white ; legs black. 



Another had almost the whole of the neck crossed with dusky 

 lines, and the wings without any speculum, otherwise like the 

 former : probably a young bird, or ditfering in sex.* 



Inhabits Falkland Isles, and called Bustard -Goose. It stands 

 pretty high on its legs, which serve to elevate it above the tall grass; 

 and with the addition of its long neck, is able to observe any danger 

 approaching. It walks, and flies with great ease, and has not that 

 disagreeable cackling cry peculiar to the rest of its kind ; it generally 

 lays six eggs ; the flesh is accounted wholesome, nourishing, and 

 palatable ; and it seldom happened there was any scarcity of it. 

 Both the above were in the British Museum. 



12.— VARIEGATED GOOSE. 



Anas variegata, Ind. Om. ii. 836. Gm. Lin. i. 505. 

 Variegated Goose, Gen. Syn. vi. 441. 



SIZE of a large Duck. Bill black at the base and tip ; head, 

 and neck above half way, white ; lower part of the neck and breast 



* M. Bougainville calls the female yellow ; and says, that the wings are adorned with 

 changing colours. — See Voy. p. 59. perhaps he means our Magellanic Species. 



