071 some Birds obsei'ved in Patagonia. 27 



form of the tarsus, being broader and more rounded in front, 

 as well as the great difference in the colour of the tarsus, 

 separate it immediately from G. galeata, and render its iden- 

 tification easy. The characters just enumerated, in addition 

 to its larger size and the quadrate fi'ontal plate, separate it, 

 a fortiori, from G. chloropus. 



Habitat. Island of Oahu, Hawaiian Group. 



The only direct reference to this bird which I have been 

 able to find is made by Peale, in his ' Ornithology of the U.S. 

 Exploring Expedition,^ p. 220. He undoubtedly obtained a 

 specimen from the island of Oahu ; but the skin was lost. In 

 the description, which he gives from his field-notes, he states 

 it to be G. chloropus, Aud., i. e. G. galeata. The allusiou 

 which he makes, however, to the crimson-coloured tarsi iden- 

 tifies it with this species at once. 



Gray, in his ' Hand-list of Birds,^ gives the Sandwich 

 Islands as a habitat of G. chloropus, Aud., as do also Hart- 

 laub and Finsch, in the table of distribution of Central-Poly- 

 nesian birds, which they give in the introduction to their 

 work ^Die Ornithologie der Viti-, Samoa imd Tonga Inseln.' 

 It is very probable that both of these authorities based their 

 statements upon Peale^s original reference. 



III. — Notes on some Birds observed in the Chnput Valley, 

 Patagonia, and in the neighbouring District. By Henry 



DURNFORD^. 



Hearing on the 25th October last that a steamer was to leave 

 Buenos Ayres that afternoon for the Welsh colony at Chuput, 

 I decided to accompany her, and having hastily packed the 

 few things necessary, at 4 o'clock found myself on board the 

 ' Santa Rosa,' lying in the outer roads. Our party consisted 

 of three, my two friends being as anxious as myself to see a 



* [The skins sent home by Mr. Durnford have been examined and 

 determined by Mr. Salvin. The nomenchitm-e used is generally that of the 

 'Nomenclator Av. Neotrop.' For general information concerning the Welsh 

 colony of Chuput, see -''Reports received by the. Admiralty from Capt. 

 H. Fairfax, R.N., of H.M.S. ' Volage,' upon the Condition of the Welsh 

 Colony of Chuput in Patagonia " (Pari. Papers, No. 18, of 1876).— Ed.] 



