682 CHAKADRIID^. 



1. Phegornis mitchelli. 



Leptopus mitchelli, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 157 (Chili) ; id. Zool, 



Typ. pi. 63 (1849). 

 Leptodactylus mitchelli, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 157. 

 Leptoscelis mitchelli, Des Murs, Icongr. Om. pi. xli. (1846) ; Gay, 



Faun. CM., Zool. i. p. 404 (1847). 

 Phegornis mitchelli, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 545, pi. 145. fig. 1 (1847) ; 



Eeichenb. Grail, tab. ccc. figs. 2437-38 (1850) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. 



p. 597 (1856) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 17, no. 10025 (1871) ; Scl. 8f 



Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 145 (1873); Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, 



p. 561 ; id. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 372 (1886: Junin) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1886, p. 403 (Sitana, Tarapaca) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 



p. 450, pi. xvi. (1888) ; James, New List Chilian B. p. 12 (1892). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above uniform chocolate- 

 brown, lighter and more ashy brown on the wings ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, the inner webs more ashy 

 brown ; the secondaries lighter and more ashy, the outer ones 

 fringed with white near the ends, and the inner ones notched 

 externally with white ; the long innermost secondaries brown like the 

 back ; upper tail-coverts brown, as also the tail-feathers, which are 

 blackish sub-terminally, with a white end, slightly freckled with 

 black, the outer feather also barred across with white ; forehead 

 and fore-part of crown as far as the eyes sooty black, as well as the 

 throat ; sides of face and cheeks and sides of neck sooty black ; 

 crown of the head to the nape brown, separated by a band of white, 

 which runs from the nape above the ear-coverts forwards over the 

 eye and across the crown between the line of the eyes ; nape and 

 hind-neck chestnut, extending down on each side on the sides of 

 the neck ; lower throat white ; fore-neck, chest, and breast ashy 

 whitish, finely lined across with wavy bars ; lower breast and 

 abdomen white, with a few dusky bars on the flanks, more broadly 

 indicated on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white, the lower primary-coverts and quills being dull ashy : 

 " bill black ; feet yellowish flesh-colour; iris dark brown" (Jelski). 

 Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 4-6, tail 2, tarsus 1. 



Young. Browner than the adults, and with rufous bars all over 

 the upper surface, less distinct on the head, the forehead greyer ; 

 the hind-neck ashy whitish, as well as the streak on the sides of 

 the head ; throat and breast ashy, with coarser bars than in the 

 adult, and scarcely any indications of dusky bars on the flanks and 

 under tail-coverts. 



Nestling. Blackish above, with ochreous spots ; beneath white. 



Bab. Western South America, from Chili to Peru. 



a, b. Ad. et juv. ; Chili. Antarctic Exped. [C.]. 



c. Pull. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. Chili. Zoological Society. 



(Type of sp?eies.) 



e. Ad. sk. Central Chili (F. C. Berkeley James Coll. 



Reed). . 

 /. J ad. sk. Juuir, Peru (Jelski). Seebohm Coll. 



