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viously observed near the Strait, Lieutenant Skyring and his 

 party saw few living creatures. One novelty which Mr. Bynoe 

 gave me was a vsplendid corvorant, which, being quite new, 

 and the most beautiful of the genus, I named P halacrocoraoc 

 Imperialis.^ 



I also received a species of swan, quite distinct from the 

 common one of the Strait, which has been long known as the 

 black-necked swan (Anser nigricollis of Ind. Orn., ii. 834 ; 

 and Latham, x. 2^3). Considering it an undescribed species, 

 it was named Cygnus anatodoides.'f 



Several deer were seen, but none obtained. There is reason, 

 however, to suppose them to be of a novel species. The horns 

 are short and straight. 



* Phal : capite cristato, collo posteriori, corporeqice supra intense piu'- 

 pu7'eis; alis scapularihusque viridi-atris ; remigibus rectricihusque diiodecim 

 fusco-atris ,* corpore subfus, fascia alarum maculdque dorsi medii sericeo- 

 alhis ; rostro nigra ; pedihus Jlavescentibus. Staluria Phal, Carhonis^ 

 It was found in the Inner Sounds, within the ' Ancon sin Salida.' — 

 Proceed, of the Zool. Society, vol. i. ; also Phil. Magazine, for March 

 1831, p. 227. 



t C. albus remigibus primariis ad apicem nigrisy rostro pedibusque rubris^ 

 illo lato subdepresso. Molina describes a Chilian duck thus. Anas Cosco- 

 roba— rostro ecctremo dilatato rotundato, corpore albo, but I do not think 

 it is the same as my specimen ; certainly it is not Anser Candidus of 

 Veillos, the ganso bianco of D'Azara, which the author of the Diet. 

 D'Hist. Nat. (xxiii. 331.) supposes to be the same as A. Coscoroba (id. 

 p. 332). Molina's description is very short, and does not mention the 

 tips of the primary wing feathers being black. 



