WOOD-DUCK OR MANED GOOSE. 
Hall’s {E7nu, VoL IX., p. 79, 1909) conclusions are : “ This is a pasture 
feeder. I found it during this season to be very destructive of speciaUy-grown 
crops. The first crop (18 acres) of rice grown in Victoria for commercial 
purposes was completely destroyed by it. At other times it appears to 
feed on grass fields. It is a tame bird, and will even approach one, from 
an inquisitive turn of mind, the whole flock gradually getting nearer. It 
associates in large flocks.” 
The bird figured and described is a male, collected at Braidwood, New 
South Wales, in June, 1891. 
