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THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



VIII. — On the Birds collected on the Atlantic Islands and Kerguelen Island, and on the 

 Miscellaneous Collections. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., F.R.S. 



(Plates XXIII., XXIV.) 



(Reprinted from Proc. ZooL Soc, 1878. With additions by P. L. Sclater, F.R.S.) 



In this chapter I propose to complete the land-birds by giving some account 

 of the specimens obtained on the Tristan da Cunha group and Kerguelen Island, 

 and of a few small collections made at various other localities which were touched at 

 during the course of the Expedition. I have arranged all these, according to the dates 

 at which the places were visited, as follows : — 



A. ST IAGO, CAPE VERD (July 1873). 



Four examples of the peculiar King-hunter of this island, Halcyon erythrogastra, 

 Temm. (Sharpe's Kingf., p. 171, pi. lxiii.), were obtained here. In one specimen the eyes 

 are marked "black," and the contents of the stomach "insects." 



B. TRISTAN DA CUNHA GROUP. 



This remote group consists of three islands — Tristan da Cunha, Nightingale and 

 Inaccessible Islands, and a fourth smaller island, Gough Island, which lies 200 miles 

 off to the south, but which, according to Mr Moseley, should be included. Many 



