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I'ATAGONIAN F.XPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



SCVTALOPUS MAGELLANICUS (Gmclill). 



Magellanic Warbler, Latham, Gen. Syn. II, pt. 2, p. 464 (1783: Tierra 



del I'liego). 

 Mofacilla niagcllanica Cdiiclin, Syst. Nat. I, p. 979 (1788), ex Lath. 

 Scyfa/o/yiisf/tsciis Gould, V. Z. S. 1836, p. 89 (Straits of Magellan). 

 Ptcroptochos (ilbifi'o)is Landbeck, Arch, fur Naturg. 1857, p. 273 (Chili). 

 ScytahpusobsciinisVJxwg, Zool.Journ. iii, p. 429 (1828) (Straits of Magellan). 

 Description. — Adult male, P. 11 O. C. 7709, Punta Arenas, Chili, Jan- 

 uary 4, 1898, A. H. Colburn coll. Length, 4.25 inches; wing, 2.05; tail, 





Fig. 3S2. Scylalopus viagelhuiiiiis, 9 771 1- About two-tliirds natural size. 



1.30; culmen, .38; tarsus, .70. Plumbeous throughout, slightly lighter 

 below, washed above with cinnamon bro\\n, brighter on the edges of the 

 primaries and on the inner secondaries and tertials which have more or 

 less black banding; feathers of the back with obscure black subterminal 

 bands ; flanks and lower abdomen barred with black and ochraceous buft ; 

 tail more or less barred above. There is some \ariation in the amount 

 of brown in the nine males in the series obtained by the expedition at 

 Punta Arenas and some ha\e small ochraceous dots at the end of the tcr- 



