CAPE BARREN GOOSE 123 
out as far as the bird can get into the shallow water 
of a lake ; this is, perhaps, resorted to as a protection 
from foxes. Though they love to graze and play 
about water, the Geese do not swim for choice, but 
only upon compulsion. To Lake Connewarre a few 
come almost every year. 
The general plumage of the Cape Barren Goose is 
brownish grey ; the crown of the head is whitish. 
The wing coverts and shoulder feathers have a dark 
spot near the tip. The cere is lemon-yellow. 
MANED GOOSE OR WOOD DUCK 
Chenonetta juhata 
Whatever was the case in former days, the Wood 
Duck or Maned Goose (it is really a Goose, not a 
Duck) is now exceedingly rare in the neighbourhood 
of Geelong. From my own notes I find that the last 
I saw was on the Barwon River at Easter, 1892 ; up 
to that year they were also not uncommon at Airey's 
Inlet. They are timber-loving birds, and are fond 
of perching along the water-courses high up in trees, 
in the hollows of which they make their nests. In 
Northern Victoria they are still to be met with along 
all the streams running into the Murray. 
The male has a glossy brown head and neck, black 
neck-plumes ; the back grey, shoulder feathers mar- 
gined with black ; rump and tail deep black, as are 
under tail coverts and abdomen ; breast heavily 
mottled greyish-white and black. The female is 
