124 CHAEADEIIDiE. 



indistinct wing-bar ; edge of wing white : bastard-wing and 

 primar}--coverts dark brown ; quills also dark brown, the primaries 

 white along the inner web, with narrow white fringes to the ends 

 of the quills and with conspicuous white shafts, the white confined 

 to the shaft alone on the outer primaries, but on the inner ones 

 accompanied by a patch of white, at first longitudinal and 

 increasing in size on the inner primaries ; secondaries dark brown, 

 tipped with white and with white bases ; the inner secondaries 

 externally sandy buff and resembling the back ; lower back and 

 rump ashy olive-brown ; the lateral upper tail-coverts sandy buff, 

 with indistinct dusky cross-bands ; tail-feathers slaty grey, with 

 tawny-buff bases, and a band of pale buff at the ends, before 

 which is a black band, wider and more distinct on the outer feathers, 

 which have also more tawny at the bases ; crown of head uniform 

 ashy, with an olive tinge ; base of forehead and a broad eye- 

 brow white, tinged with tawny, especially above the ear-coverts, 

 where the superciliary band almost forms a nuchal collar ; a black 

 streak from the base of the bill, traversing the lores and passing 

 through the eye ; chin and fore part of cheeks white, the ear- 

 coverts ashy ; remainder of cheeks and throat bright orange- 

 chestnut ; lower throat and fore-neck light ashy, tinged with olive ; 

 remainder of under surface, from the fore-neck downwards, creamy 

 buff, becoming whiter on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; on 

 the breast a large patch of black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 pure white : " bill black ; feet flesh-colour ; toes and claws black " 

 (H. Dumford) ; " iris dark hazel-brown " (JelsJci). Total length 

 9-5 inches, culmen 1*15, wing 103, tail 2 - 7, tarsus l - 9o. 



Hah. Falkland Islands ; Patagonia to the Eio de La Plata ; 

 Chili; Peru. 



a. 2 a d. sk. Falkland Is. (Dr. McCor- Antarctic Expedition. 



mick). 



b. Pull. sk. Tambo Point, Patagonia, H. Durnford, Esq. [C.]. 



Jan. 3. 



c,d. Ad.sk. Chuput, Patagonia, Sept., H. Durnford, Esq. [C.]. 



Nov. 



e,f. Ad. sk. Bio Negro, Patagonia ( W.H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Hudson), 



ff. Ad. st. La Plata. M. Bravard [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Chili. C. Crawley, Esq. [P.]. 



i. Ad. sk. Chili ( Weisshaupt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



A', I. Ad. sk. Central Chili (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 



m. <3 ad. sk. Tarapaca, Jau. 23 (Rahmer). Berkeley James Coll. 



n. d ad. sk. Islay, S.W. Peru, Sept. 2 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{IF. Whitely). 



4. ERYTHROGONYS. 



Type. 



Erythrogonvs, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 133 E. cinctus. 



Range. Confined to Australia. 



