2. TniNOCORUS. 717 



Coturnix falklandica, Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xi. p. 38G (1819) ; 

 Jan/. & &%, III. Or a. article to pi. 38 (1828). 



Attayis Culklaiulicii, Gould in Darwtn's Vby. ' Beagle, 1 Birds, p. 117 

 (1841 : Mountains of Tierra del Fuego); Gay, Faun. Chil., Z<><>1. 

 p. 38o (1847) ; B/>. C. R. xliii. p. 420 (175(1) ; Scl. # Solo. Ibis, 

 1868, p. 188 (Straits of Magellan) ; Sharpe, I>. Z. S. 1881, p. 12 

 (Cockle Cove). 



Attagia malouina, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 51 (1844: Straits 

 of Magellan ; I lermi't Ial.) ; id. (ien. B. iii. p. 6§0 (1845) ; Reichenb. 

 Gall. tab. clx.wi. 6g. L667 (1860) ; Scl. P. Z. 8. 1861, p. 4tj (Falk- 

 land la.); Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 154 (Falkland Is.); Gray, List 

 Gall. Brit. Mas. p. 94 (1867); id. lland-l. B. iii. p. 20, no. 10051 

 (1871) ; Scl. fy Sale. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 144 (1873) ; Oust. 

 Miss. Soi. Cap Horn, vi. Ois. p. B 107 (1891). 



Adah male. General colour above sandy rufous, the feathers 

 centred with black, and with some wavy lines of black towards the 

 end of the fe ithers of the scapulars and inner secondaries, which 

 have also whitish margins ; the wing-coverts black, with white 

 margins and rufous mottlings in the shape of spots or horseshoe 

 bars ; quills brown, lighter on the inner webs, the inner secondaries 

 marked with horseshoe bars of rufous like the greater wing- 

 coverts ; tail-feathers blackish, tipped with dull white, and barred 

 with brown or rufous-brown on the outer feathers ; crown of head 

 blackish, streaked with sandy rufous ; eyebrow and sides of face 

 ashy isabelline, the ear-coverts moro rufous, and narrowly streaked 

 with blackish ; throat ashy whitish ; lower throat, fore-neck, and 

 chest bright sandy rufous, with circular black markings, and whitish 

 margins to many of the feathers, especially on the sides of the upper 

 breast : remainder of under surface of body white, with a few sandy 

 or black-barred feathers on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; axil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts white, the feathers near the edge of 

 the wing with dusky bases. Total length 11 inches, culmen - b', 

 wing 5*9, tail 2'1, tarsus - 75. 



Ilab. Falkland Islands and Straits of Magellan. 



a, b. <$ ad. ; c. Ad. Hermit IsL, Straits of Antarctic Ex- 

 sk. Magellan, Oct. 4. pedition. 



d. cfiid.sk. Hermit Is!., Oct. 4. Dr. McCormick, 



e, f. Ad. sk. Straits of Magellan. Sir R. Burnett & Ad- 



miral Fitzroy [B]. 

 g. Ad. sk. Beckett Harbour, Straits of Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Magellan, .Mar, h 22 {Dr. 



Cunningham), 

 h. c? ad. sk. Cockle Cove, Straits of Dr. Coppinger [P.]. 



Magellan, Feb. 14. 



2. THIN0C0RUS. 



Type. 



Thinocorus, Eschscholtz, Zool. Atlas, p. 2 (1829). ... T. rumicivorus. 



Ocypetes, Wagler, Isis, 1829, p. 7t>2 T. rumicivorus. 



Range. Confined to South America. From Chili to Peru and to tho 

 Argentine Republic. 



