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Show 1876.] NEOTROPICAL ANATIDAE. 365 with other Chilian animals, a pair of this form of the Magellanic Goose. The female unfortunately died ; but the male was lent to a correspondent, who returned to the Gardens in its place, in November 1875, a pair of young birds, bred between it and a female B. magellanica vera, of which we exhibit a drawing. The male, it will be observed, is not quite so strongly barred as in the pure B. dispar, but presents well-defined black edgings on the under plumage. The females of the two forms are, so far as we can see, quite identical. IP a, Male, and b, Female, Magellanic Geese in the Society's Gardens, bred between B. dispar S and B. magellanica $. |