158 LAEID.?!. 



r. Imm. sk. Chile {E. C. H.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



s, t. Imm. sk. Viiia del Mar, near Valparaiso. il. Berkeley James, 



Esq. [P.]-. 



n. 2 vix ad. sk. Coquimbo Bay, Xov. {Admiral H. Saunders Coll. 



A. H. Markhcan). 



V. Imm. sk. Callao Bay, Peru (R. Jvmp). H. Saunders Coll. 



4. Ehyncliops flavirostris. 



Khvncliops flavirostris*, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Xaf. iii. p. 383 

 (1816) ; id. op. cit. xxix. p. 283 (1819 : Senegal) ; id. Enc. Meth. i. 

 p. 351 (1820 : Seneg-al) ; Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 1, 

 p. 138 (1826); Lesson, Traite, p. 624 (1831); VieiU. Gal. Ois. ii. 

 p. 237, pi. 291 (1834 : Senegal) ; Eiipp. Syst. Uebers.^. 139 (1845 : 

 Nubia and Senaar) ; A. E. Brehm, J. f. O. 1854, p. 85; id. op. cit. 

 1855, p. 378; Heuf/l. Sijst. Vehers. p. 70 (1856: White Nile); 

 Bp. C. E. xlii. p. 773 (1856) ; Hciyl. Em. 1859, p. 349 (Dahulak 

 Is., Eed Sea) ; id. in Peterm. Mitth. 1861, p. 29 (Red Sea) ; A. E. 

 Brehm, Eeis. Habesch, iii. p. 143 (1863); Scld. Mus. P.-Bas, 

 Steruifi, p. 40 (1863) ; Kirk, Uis, 1864. p. 337 (Upper Zambesi 

 and Sbir<5) ; Finsch ^- Hartl. Viig. Ostafr. p. 837 (1870) ; Gray, 

 Hund-l. B. iii. p. 124, no. 11094 (1871); Gurney in Anderss. 

 B. Dam. Ld. p. 365 (1872: Lake Ngami) ; Shelley, B. Eyypt, 

 p. 302, pi. xiv. (1872); Hem/l. Orn. iV.O.-Afr. Bd. ii. pt. 2, 

 p. 1463 (1873) ; Ussker, Ibis, 1874, p. 75 (Gold Coast) ; Eeirhenow, 

 J.f. O. l'<74, p. 373 (Gold Coast) ; id. op. cit. 1877, p. 11 ( Loango) ; 

 Buchholz, Eeis. West-Afr. p. 152 (1880: Camaroons); Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 706 (1884) ; Bocaqe, Orn. Angola, p. 515 

 (1881); Koluh 4- ran Pelz. Beitr. Orn. 'Siidafr. p. 333 (1882); 

 Biitfik. Xotes Leyden Mus. 1885, p. 251 (Liberia) ; Bohm, J.f. O. 

 1885, p. 66 (Tanganyika) ; Fischer, t. c. p. 114 (Tana River) ; 

 Hartei't, op. cit. 1880, p. 612 (Niger and Benue) ; Matschie, op. cit. 

 1887, p. 137 ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 10 (1889: Egvpt); SMley, 

 Ibis, 1893, p. 29 (R. Shire, Nyassaland); S/iarpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. 

 Club, no. xi. p. V (1893 : Suakin) ; Eeichenow, 7 oV/. Deidsch-O.-Afr. 

 p. 21 (1894: Tanganyika). 



Rhynchops niger. Leach in Tuckey's E.vped. Congo, App. p. 408 

 (1818). 



Rhynchops albirostris, Licht. Verz. Donbl. p. 80 (1823: Nubia); 

 Boie, Isis, 1844, p. 191 (Red Sea) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 656 

 (1846) ; Licht. Noinencl. Av. p. 97 (1854 : Egypt). 



Rhynchops orientalis, Cretzschm. in Eiipp. Atlas, p. 37, tab. 24 

 (1826) ; Eraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 52 (Nun River) ; Gray, List B. 

 Brit. Mus., Anseres, p. 174 (1844: Niger); Eeichenb. Natat. 

 tab. xviii. fig. 402 (1848) ; Allen S( Thomps. Evp. Niger, i. p. 167 

 (1848) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr.T^. 257 (1857: Senegambia) ; Cassin, 

 Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 176 (Camma R., W. Africa) ; Antin. 

 Cat. descr. Ucc. p. IKi (1864 : Egypt). 



Adult male in hreeding-phovage. Forehead, cheeks, throat, breast, 

 and abdomen white ; crown, nape, and mantle deep umber-brown ; 

 the outer portions of the primaries rather darker and the shafts 

 blackish ; most of the secondaries edged with white for about 0*3 



' Originally Hhyncops faviros/ris, and ascribed to Australia. 



