Sketches of the Fauna of Tsalal

Profile of the lesser spurwing.

Profile of the lane spurwing.

The foie gras is the largest of the hadrucks, Tsalal's main herbivores and descendants of Eaton's Pintail, Anas eatoni.

The false penguin, here accompanied by a gentoo penguin descendant and pursued by a lion seal, is a miniaturized descendant of the Commerson's dolphin which has specialized to crustacean consumption convergently but to a greater degree than the South American subspecies.