38. IPOCRANTOE. 481 



Drvocopiis mfigelLauiciis, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 133 (1850). 

 Megapicus niagellanicus, Bp. Consp. Valuer. Zygod. p. 7, no. 3 (1854) ; 



Malh. Bicida, i. p. 8, pi. ii. figs. 1, 2, d' ? ad. (1861). 

 Ipocrantor magellanicus, Cah. (§r Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. p. 99 (1863). 



Adult male. The whole of the plumage black, more or less 

 glossed with blue, with the following exceptions : the entire head 

 and crest, chin and throat scarlet, most of the feathers having 

 a white transverse spot about their middle ; the inner webs of 

 most of the quills on more or less of their basal portion, and of the 

 innermost secondaries entirel)', the under wing-coverts (except on 

 the edge of the wing) and the axiUaries white ; the upper tail- 

 coverts with a stripe of white down each side of the shaft at the 

 base ; shafts of quills and of tail-feathers black. Total length 

 15-5 inches, culmcn 2-3, wing 8-3, tail 5-9, tarsus 1*3 ; toes (with- 

 out claws) — outer anterior 1-03, outer posterior 1-16, inner anterior 

 0'88, inner posterior 0'G5. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the head 

 and crest blue-black, with only the nasal plumes, base of the fore- 

 head, lores, front half of the malar region, and the chin red. Total 

 length 15-5 inches, culmen 2-25, wing 8*5, tail 6'3, tarsus 1'4, 

 The soft parts in this species are as follows : — " irides yellow, bill 

 and legs black " (Kii)r/). 



Toung. A male, with the whole of the top of the head and the 

 short crest scarlet, the feathers having black bases and a white 

 central spot, has the lores, face, posterior portion of malar region, 

 chin, except at the angle, and the throat black, only a few of the 

 feathers being tipped with red, the red-tipped feathers on the hinder 

 part of the malar region having a white central spot ; the quills 

 spotted with white at the tip ; the inner webs of the innermost 

 secondaries barred with black at the tip : the female is like the 

 adult of the same sex, but has no red on the lores, and this colour 

 on the anterior portion of the malar region and on the chin is less 

 in extent ; the quills (as in the young male) are tipped with white, 

 and the inner secondaries have the inner webs barred with black 

 at the tip. 



Hah. Chili and Patagonia, south to the Straits of Magellan 

 (Sandy Point). 



a. c? imm. ; b, c. Straits of Magellan. Antarctic Expedi- 



5 ad. sk. tion. 



d,e. S 2 ad. sk. Sandy Point, Straits of Ma- Sclater Coll. 



gellan {Cu7iningham). 



f, 9- 6 '2 ad. sk. Porto Bueno. ' Challenger ' Expe- 



dition. 



h, i. c? 2 ad. ; k. Chili (Leybold). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d juv. .sk. 



I, m. (S 2 ad. sk. Valdivia, Chili ( Weisshaupt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



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