18. DKLONOPTERUS. 



165 



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d, e. Ad. sk. 



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9 

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Carthagena. 

 Antioquia, U.S. 

 (T. K. Salmon). 

 British Guiana. 



Colombia 



<J ad. sk. 



Ad. sk. 

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Ad. sk. 

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 . Ad. sk. 

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 2 ad. sk. 

 Ad. sk. 

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Ad. sk. 



t. 3 2 ad. sk. 



Ad. st. 



Quongo, British Guiana, Oct. 



20 (II. IWiitely). 

 Aunai, British Guiana, April 



(H. W.). 

 Brazil. 

 Island of Mexiana, Nov. (A. li. 



Wallace). 

 Para (E. L. Layard). 

 Pernambuco ( W. A. Forbes). 

 Bahia (Dr. Wucherer). 

 Bahia (Dr. Wucherer). 

 Bio de Janeiro. 

 Matto Grosso (II. H. Smith). 

 Buenos Ayres, Nov. G (E. W. 



White). 

 Monte Video (Johnson). 

 Uruguay, Aug. 14. 

 Maldonado. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



Sir R. Schomburgk 



[C.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



M. Claussen [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Alan Peel, Esq. [P.]. 

 Sir W. Burnett & 



Capt. Fitzroy [P.]. 



2. Belonopterus chilensis. 

 Parra chilensis, Molina, Saggio St. Chili, p. 239 (1789). 

 Vanellus cayennensis (nee Om.), Bridges, P. Z. S. 1841, p. 94 (Chili) ; 



Gay, Farm. Chii, Zool. i. p. 400 (1847) ; Burm. Reise La Plata-St. 



ii. p. . r )02 (1861 : Mendoza) ; Scl. $■ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 331, 339 ; 



iid. Ibis, 1869, p. 284 (Gre^orv Bav) ; iid. Nomenel. An. Neotrop. 



p. 142 (1873 ; pt.) ; Berk. James, New List Chilian B. p. 11 (1892). 

 Philomachus chilensis, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 117 (Chili). 

 Vanellus cayanensis, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mux. p. 63 (1844 : 



Valparaiso). 

 Philomachus cayanus (nee Lath.), Gould, Voy. 'Beagle,'' Birds,?. 127 



(1841, pt.). 

 Vanellus chilensis, Yarrell, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 54 (Chili). 

 Hoplopterus cayanus (nee Lath.), Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 46 (Falkland 



Isl.) ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 155 (Stanley, E. Falklands) ; Omt. Miss. 



Sci. Cap Horn, Ois. p. 289 (1891). 

 Vanellus cayanus, Cunningham, Ibis, 1868, p. 490 (Gregory Bay). 

 Vanellus occidentalis, Hurting, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 451 ; Scl. § Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1878, p. 437 (Elizabeth Isl.) ; iid. Voy. ' Challenger; 



p. 108 (1881); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 14 (Peckett Harbour; 



Talcakuano) ; Taczan. Orn. Pcrou, iii. p. 335 (1886). 

 Vanellus cayennensis chilensis, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 218 



(1888). 



Adult male. Similar to B. cayennensis, but larger, with the head, 

 neck, and sides of face clear ashy grey, instead of brown, the 

 •white tips of the tail broader, and the black of the breast extending 

 further down and occupying the whole breast ; the tarsus much 

 shorter. Total length 14-5 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 9-3, tail 4'7, 

 tarsus 2 - 75. 



Aduli female. Resembles the male in colour. Total length 

 15-5 inches, culmen 1*25, wing 9-5, tail 4-3, tarsus 2-6. 



