452 Count T. Salvador! on the 



Patagonia, and also on the eastern side of tlic Cordilleras 

 between Santiago and Mendoza*). 



Enicornis phoenicura G. B,. Gr. List Gen. B. p. 17 (1840) ; 

 id. op. cit. 2nded. p. 22 (1841) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 133 (1846) ; 

 id. Hand-list, i. p. 166. n. 2204 (1869) (Cliili !). 



Henicornis phcenicurn Bp. Consp. i. p. 214 (1850) 

 (Patagonia) ; Bchnb. Icon. Av. t, 545. f. 3718 (1853) (ex 

 Gould) ; id. Syn. Av., Scansorije, p. 206. u. 501 (1853); Sel. 

 & Salv. Nomencl. p. 62 (1873) (Patagonia); Scl. Cat. B. 

 XV. p. 26 (1890) (Patagonia) ; Oust. Miss. Sc. Cap Horn, 

 Oiseaux, pp. 270, 326. n. 57 (1891) (Patagonia, Cliili !) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, iii. p. 50. n. 1 (1901) (Patagonia). 



Ericornis phoenicura Cass, in Gillis, Un. St. Astron. 

 Exped. ii. p. 188 (1855) (critical). 



Henicornis youldi, part.,Cal). & Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 24 

 (1859). 



Furnarius phoenicurns, part., Gieb. Tlies, Orn. ii. p. 217 

 (1875). 



Henicornis phoe.nicurus Scl. & Huds. Arg. Orn. i. p. 173 

 (1888) (Chili! and Patagonia). 



This species was discovered by Darwin di;ring the voyage 

 of the 'Beagle ' ; it was found in three different places : Port 

 Desire, St. Aignan, and Santa Cruz on the western coast of 

 Southern Patagonia. 



The Museum of Turin possesses a specimen presented by 

 Dr. G. Burmeister, which was obtained at Sta. Cruz on 

 February 10th, 1889. 



This specimen appeared to me so very different from Heni- 

 cornis melanura (of which our Museum has four specimens 

 from Chili) that I had failed to recognise it even generically. 

 I therefore asked Mr. Hellmayr to examine it, and he has 

 identified it. 



It has already been remarked that Cabanis and Heine 

 were quite mistaken in referring H. phrenicura and H. 

 melanura to one and the same species. Cassin was the first 

 to clearly point out the differences between the two birds. 



I suppose that the habitat Chili, attributed to this species 



* Probablj- this locality is not correct, and refers to some otlier species. 



