Nase 
June 28, 1916 j Vout. VI, pp. 25-27 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
TWO UNDESCRIBED BIRDS FROM THE FALKLAND 
ISLANDS. 
BY WINTHROP SPRAGUE BROOKS. 
AFTER studying the collections made on the Falkland Islands 
from October, 1915, to March, 1916, by the John C. Phillips Expe- 
dition to the Falkland Islands, it has seemed advisable to describe 
the following two birds as distinct. 
Phrygilus malvinarum sp. nov. 
Type.— Unsexed immature specimen in first autumn plumage, no. 70438, 
coll. Museum of Comparative Zodlogy. Port Stephens, West Falkland 
Island, Falkland Islands, collected February 1, 1916, by W. S. Brooks. 
Orig. no. 1330, Phillips Expedition to Falkland Islands. 
Characters— No yellow in the plumage. General color above dark 
brown, irregularly streaked with cinnamon, the feathers having dark brown 
centers with broad cinnamon margins, this color becoming more intense 
and the margin more narrow toward the tips of the feathers. On the 
rump the color is more rufous in appearance, the dark brown centers of the 
feathers becoming smaller; lesser wing-coverts fuscous with whitish mar- 
