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12. Fulica alai, Peale. 



FuJiea alai, Peale, Zool. U. S. Expl. Exp., Birds, p. 224; Cassin, Manim. & Orn. U. S. Expl. 

 Exp., p. 306, Atlas, pi. xxxvi.; Scl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 351. 



[No. 531. Male. Eyes red ; bill flesh-coloure'd with a yellowish tinge ; feet and legs 

 pale slate colour.] 



13. Totanus incanus, Gm. 



Totanus incanus, Scl., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 351. 



[No. 532. Female. Eyes hazel ; bill brown ; legs yellow.] 



VII. — On the Birds collected in Antarctic America. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., 



F.E.S., and Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S. 



(Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1878. With additions by P. L. Sclater, F.R.S.) 



In this Report the birds collected at the island of Juan Fernandez, at various points 

 during the subsequent passage along the coast of Patagonia, and at the Falkland Islands 

 are noticed. 



The Challenger was at Juan Fernandez from the evening of the 13th to the evening 

 of the 15th of November 1875, and reached the cost of Patagonia on the 31st December 

 at Port Otway, east of Cape Tres Montes. On the 1st of January 1876 a party landed 

 on Penguin Island in Messier's Channel, and the same evening the ship arrived in Cove 

 Bay. On the 2d January parties were landed on Middle Island, on the 3d at Gray Har- 

 bour, on the 4th at Grappler Harbour, on the 5th and 6th at Tom Bay, near the Trinidad 

 Passage, and small collections were made at each place. On the 8th of January the ship 

 arrived at Porto Bueno, and remained there till the 10th. The same evening a party was 

 landed at Isthmus Bay, and a few birds were obtained. From the 11th to the 13th the 

 Challenger remained at Port Churrucha, and proceeded thence to Port Famine. From 

 the 14th to the 17 th she was at anchor off Sandy Point, whence she proceeded through 

 the straits, and anchored about 10 a.m. on the 18th off Elizabeth Island. Leaving the 

 Magellan Straits the Challenger arrived at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, on the 23d 

 of January 1876, and remained altogether about two weeks at the Falklands. 



During this entire period 169 specimens of birds were collected, which are referable 

 to 41 species. 



The ornithology of this part of the world is well known to us 1 from the researches of 



1 See Address on Geographical Zoulogy in Rep. Brit. Assoc, 1875, p. 105, and List of Papers on the Birds 

 of Chili, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 108. 



