550 roDiciPEnitijj. 



List of B. pt. iii. p. \A9) (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. G33 (1846) ; 



Gay, Hist. Chili, Zool. i. p. 4t).3 (1847) ; Reichenb. Natatures, 



pi. 12. uos. 740-741 (1850) ; Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 457, Atl. 



pi. viii. fig. 8 (1857). 

 Podiceps longirostris, Bonap. Icon. Faun. Itcd. i. XTcc, Introd. p. 1 



(1832-41) [Sardinia!]; Bejl. S( Gerbe, Orn. Europ. ii. p. 582 



(1867) ; Brooke, Ibis, 1873, p. 349. 

 ? Podiceps chilensis, Fraser (nee Garnot), P. Z. S. 1843, p. 119 



[Chili] ; Yarrell, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 55 [egg]. 

 Podiceps major, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 033 (1846) ; Schl. Mus. 



Pays-Bas, vi. Urinat. p. 38 (1867); Sdat. ^ Salvin, Exot. Orn. ii. 



p. 190 (1869) ; iid. Ibis, 1870, p. 500 [Straits of Magellan] : Tacz. 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 244 [N. Peru] ; Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. ] 64 [Buenos 



Ayres, breeding-habits] ; Saliin, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 432 [Chili]. 

 Podiceps bicornis, Burmeist. Reise La Plata, ii. p. 520 (1861). 

 ^chmophorus major, Durnf. Ibis, 1876, p. 165 [Banda Oriental & 



Buenos Ayres], 1878, p. 405 [Patagonia] ; White, P. Z S. 1883, p. 433 



[Buenos Ayres] ; Barroivs, Auk, i. p. 310 (1884) [Lower Uruguay]; 



Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 492 (1886) ; Salvad. Ucc. Ital. p. 300 



(1887) ; Sclat. ^- Hudson, Arc/entine Orn. ii. p. 202 (1889) ; Hollund, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 213 [Argentine Rep.: breeds in October); Lane, 



Ibis, 1897, p. 313 [Chili]. 

 Colymbus salvadoiii, Stejn. Bull. U.S. Xaf. Mus. xxix. p. 13(1885). 



Adult. General colour above, including the head and back of the 

 neck, brownish black, glossed with dark green, especially on the 

 head and neck ; feathers on the occiput and nape lengthened and 

 forming a full short crest ; the feathers of the back and scapulars 

 with rather well-marked brownish-white margins ; lores, sides of 

 the head, and throat grey, shading into white on the chin and 

 darker grey on the upper part of the fore-neck ; sides and fore part 

 of the neck chestnut; an indistinct band of the same colour continued 

 down the sides of the breast to the shoulder ; chest and rest of the 

 underparts silvery white except the sides and flanks which are mostly 

 ash-brown, sometimes washed with chestnut; outer primaries ash- 

 brown, whitish on the basal half of the inner web, the white 

 gradually increasing on the innermost quills, which are mostly 

 pure white ; secondaries white. Total length about 26 inches, 

 culmen from feathers on forehead 2-8-3"3, wing 2*7-3-3, tarsus 2-6, 

 outer toe and claw 3'2. 



Immature. Differs from the adult in having the lores, sides of the 

 head, chin, and throat white ; the sides and fore part of the neck 

 mostly greyish, tinged with chestnut ; the sides of the breast, 

 as well as the sides and flanks, mostly ash-brown, without any trace 

 of chestnut. 



Yoking in down. General colour of the upper parts, including 

 the head and neck, black, with rather wide longitudinal white 

 stripes, which become more irregular and broken on the sides of the 

 head and crown, where they form a distinct pattern ; chin, throat, 

 breast, and rest of the underparts pure white : a naked patch on 

 the middle of the crown. 



Hah. Central and Southern parts of South America from Northern 

 Peru, the Argentine Republic, and Uruguay to the Straits of 

 Magellan. 



