ERISMATURA. 



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black ; iris dark red " {Bnrmeister). Total leugth about 17*5 inches, 

 ■wing 5-~'), tail ;5*5, eulmen l-Go, broadest part of the bill U-8, 

 tai'sus 1'2. 



Female. Above brown, irregularly and indistinctly barred with 

 buff ; upper part of the head almost uniform brown ; cheeks dark 

 brown with paler dottings ; a buffish-white stripe under the eyes 

 from the base of the bill to the occiput ; throat whitish ; under- 

 parts silvery whitish at the tip of the feathers, but the bases of the 

 feathers brown, showing through more or less ; flanks brown, with 

 broadish white-buff bands ; under tail-coverts conspicuously white ; 

 wings dusky brown, freckled with buff on the median wing-coverts; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries grej-ish brown edged with white ; 

 tail brown. 



Young. Similar to the female. 



Male in moidtincj dress. Similar to the female, but the upper part 

 of the head barred with chestnut-brown ; many chestnut feathers 

 among the brown ones of the upper parts, and some also on the 

 flanks [JMus. Turin). 



Hah. Southern America, from Chili to Uruguay, Argentine, and 

 Patagonia. 



a. (5 ad. sk. 



b. c? ad. sk. 



c. tS juv. sk. 



d. e. cJ 2 ad. sk. 

 f-l. d 2 ad. et 



6 juv. sk. 

 7n-r. ci" 2 ad., cJ 



imm.,et juv. sk. 

 s. (J inim. sk. 



t, u. $ ad. sic. 



Xo localitv. 



? Chili ( C'apt. Markham). 



Tarapacil, Chili. 



Prov. Santiago, Chili [Leybokl). 

 Central Chili. 



Rio Pilmaiquen, ChiU, Feb., 



March. 

 The Market, Monte Video, 



April. 

 S. America. 



Eyton Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 H. Berkeley James, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Salviu-(Todman Coll. 

 II. Berkeley James, 



Esq [P.]. 

 II. Berkeley James, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 II. D urn ford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Evton Coll. 



7. Erismatura australis. 



Oxvura australis, Gonlil, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 8-3 (Australia) ; id. Si/71. Jl. 

 Austr. pi. — (head J $ ) (1837). 



Erismatura australis, Eyt. Man. Anat. p. 172 (1838); G. B. Gi: 

 List B. Brit. Mm. iii. p. 140 (1844) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 627, u. o 

 (1844); Gould, B. Austr. vii. pi. 17 (pt. xvi., 1844) ; B^hnb. Si/n. 

 Av., Natatorea, t. 78. If. 902-903 (184')) (e.v Gould) \ Bp. Compt. 

 Rend. xhii. p. (3o2, n. 1 59 ( ] 8">t3 ) ; Goidd, Handb. B. Austr. ii. 

 p. 379 (18()r)) ; Br/t. Si/n. Anat. p. 131 (1809) ; G. B. Gr. Hand- 

 list, iii. p. 90, n. 10720 (1871) ; Rams. Br. Linn. Soc. JV. S. If. i. 

 pp. 190,220 (1870) (Melbourne), ii. p. 200, n. 663 (1878) (Vic- 

 toria, S. and \\'. Australia); Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 530; Bani- 

 .wy. Tab. List, p. 22, n. 075 (1888) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 47 

 (1889) ; Xort/i, IJesrr. Cat. Nests and Bi/i/s B. Austr. p. 346 (1889) ; 

 A'. H. Bennett, Bns, 1891, pp. 143-145- Nort/i, Rec. Austr. Mm. 

 ii. p. 37 (1892) (Tasmania). 



Biziura australis, iS'f/i/rr/. J/M.S. P.-B., Anseres, p. 11 (1866); Gieb. 

 Thes. Orn. i. p. 467 (syn. emend.) (1872). 



Oxvura (Erismatura) australis, Bi/t. Suppl. to Osteal. Av. pi. 15 ($ 

 skeleton) (1809). 



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