716 THIN0C0RYTHID.2E. 



lower throat, which is more distinctly spotted ; the fore-neck ashy, 

 barred across with wavy lines of blackish ; remainder of under 

 surface of body pale cinnamon, the feathers edged with isabelline, 

 and with narrow wavy liues of blackish on the sides of the breast, 

 flanks, and under tail-coverts ; the axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 pale cinnamon ; quills ashy below. Total length 11*5 inches, culmen 

 0*8, wing 7'9, tail 2 - 7, tarsus l'l. 



Young. Much more uniform ashy than the adults, the freckling 

 very much finer and more minute ; the down of the nestling ashy 

 grey and very dense. 



Hob. Chili and Peru. 



a. Ad. st. Cordillera of Chili. Purchased. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Chili. Purchased. 



d-i. Ad. sk. Central Chili. Berkeley James Coll. 



k, I. <S ad. et juv. Santiago, Chili (Leybold). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



sk. 

 m. 5 ad. sk. Sacaya, Tarapaca, April 6 Berkeley James Coll. 



(A. A. Lane). 



2. Attagis chimborazensis. 



Attagis chimborazensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, pp. 73, 82 (Mount Chim- 

 borazo, 14,000 ft.) ; Gray, List Gall, Brit. Mm. p. 95 (1867) ; Scl. 

 8f Salv. Exotic Orn, p. 157, pi. lxxix. (1869) ; Gray, Hand-l. B.\\\. 

 p. 20, no. 10054 (1871) ; Scl. % Salv. Nomenvl. Au. Neotr. p. 144 

 (1873) ; Tacz. $ Bed. P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 112, 120 (Ecuador). 



Adult. Much darker than A. gayi, and of a black appearance 

 above with wavy lines of sandy buff; tail black, with only a few 

 sandy-buff bars ; wing-coverts blackish, with sandy-rufous bars and 

 conspicuous white edgings ; under surface of body deep cinnamon, 

 the throat paler, spotted as in A. gayi, the chest barred as in that 

 species, but much more coarsely, and the black bars on the sides of 

 the breast and flanks much coarser, as well as those on tho under 

 tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dark cinnamon, those 

 near the edge of the wing black. Total length 11 inches, culmen 

 - 7, wing 7"6, tail 3, tarsus 1-1. 



Hah. Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. Mt. Chimborazo, Ecuador. Purchased. (Type 



of the species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Ecuador (C Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Attagis malouinus. 



Caille des isles Malouines, D'Aubent. PL Enl. ii. pi. 322. 



La Caille des isles, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. ii. p. 477 (1771). 



Tetrao malouinus, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 13 (1783). 



Malouine Quail, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 786 (1783 : Falkland 



Is.). 

 Tetrao falklandicus, Gm. Si/st. Nat, i. p. 762 (1788). 

 Perdix £ dklaudica, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 653 (1790) j Temm. Pig. et 



Gall. hi. p. 738 (1815). 



