562 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Tail : Dirty yellowish white, with fourteen or more rather obsolete bars 

 of pale ashy brown and a broad terminal band, an inch and a quarter, of 

 the same color. 



Wings : Primaries, pale ashy brown for the terminal third ; the other 

 two-thirds whitish, more or less distinctly vermiculated and obsoletely 

 barred with pale ashy brown ; secondaries nearly the shade of the upper 

 back, barred with rusty brown of a lighter shade and tipped with dirty yel- 

 lowish white ; tertials much like the secondaries, but with more pro- 

 nounced yellowish white terminally; upper wing-coverts dull brown, the 

 feathers becoming paler at the ends and often buff in splotches, giving to 

 the whole an irregular mixed brown and dull buff appearance ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries deeper seal-brown. 



Lower parts : Dull brown, each feather with a distinct median stripe 

 and an irregular terminus of dirty buff, in some parts nearly obscuring the 

 pattern ; the thighs and flanks darker brown and obsoletely and faintly 

 barred with dull buff; under tail-coverts dirty white, with some obscure 

 brown barring on those nearest the vent. 



Bill : Grey horn-color ; the cere orange-yellow. 



Iris : Hazel-brown. Bare crop-patch orange-yellow. 



Feet: Yellow obscured by lead-color, which prevails on the tarsi. 



Downy young : Covered with a dull white down, often buffy in tone. 



The following are the colors of eyes, cere and tarsi given by Sharpe and 

 White : 



"Male juv.: Port Henry, Straits of Magellan, January 25, 1879. Cere 

 fleshy grey ; eyes black. 



"Female juv.: Port Henry, January 25, 1879. Cere orange ; tarsi grey 

 and yellow. 



"Female ad.: Tom Bay, March, 1879. Bill grey; cere orange-yellow; 

 tarsi grey; feet yellow; claws black." (Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 10.) 



"Female. Cosquin, Cordova, Arg. Rep., July 27, 1882. Iris brown. 

 Carancho." (E. W. White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 41.) 



Geographical Range. — South America from the Straits of Magellan and 

 Fuegian Islands to Cape Horn, north on the east coast as far as the mouth 

 of the Amazons, on the Pacific coast to 20° south latitude. 



Mr. Hatcher and his assistants found this bird in most of the localities 

 they visited in Patagonia, where the birds are common and generally dis- 

 tributed. The breeding season begins in September in the region here 



