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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



P. Z. S. 1867, p. 333 (Chile) ; id. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 445; 



iid. Exot. Orn. p. 163, pi. LXXXII (1868) ; Phil. & Landl. Cat. Av. 



Chil. p. 38 (1868) ; Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 139 (1873) ; 



iid. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 437 (Sandy Point) ; iid. Voy. Chall. II. Birds, 



p. 108 (1880) ; Barrows, Auk, I. p. 276 (1884: Carhue) ; Withington, 



Ibis, 1888, p. 471 (Lomas de Zamora) ; Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos 



Aires, III. part X. p. 246 (1888 : Straits of Magellan) ; Scl. & Huds. 



Argent. Orn. II. p. 148 (1889) ; Oust. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn Oiseaux, 



p. 133 (189 1 : Punta Arenas) ; James, New List Chil. B. p. 10 (1892); 



Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXIII. p. 19 (1894); id. Hand-List B. I. 



p. 94 (1899); Oates, Cat. Bds. Eggs, Brit. Mus. I. p. no (1901); Phil. 



An. Mus. Chile, XV. pi. 28 (1902). 

 Rallits rnfopcnnis, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Part III. p. 116 (1844); 



Hartl. Naum. 1853, p. 222 (Valdivia). 

 Ortygometra antarctica, Gray, Gen. B. III. p. 594 (1846). 

 Ralliis ttliginostis, Phil. Arch. f. Nat. p. 83 (1858: Santiago); id. & 



Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 38 (1868). 

 Arainus aiifarctkiis, Gray, Handl. B. III. p. 59, no. 10420 (1871). 



Fig. 22. General description. 



Size. — Total length, 7.5 inches. 

 Culmen, 1.2 inches. 

 Wing, 3.6 inches. 

 Tail, 1.7 inches. 

 Tarsus, 1.35 inches. 

 Color. — General color above bufify 

 brown striped with dusky brown or 

 black ; below lead color, with whitish 

 and buffy brown suffusion. 



Head : Crown blackish brown, with 



each feather edged and tipped with 



sandy buff. Sides of face lead color. 



A stripe beginning in front of and 



above the eye, pale buff almost white at its origin so as to appear as a spot, 



shading then into deeper buff, this in its turn shading into lead color like 



that of the sides of the face. Region in front of the eye and lores black- 



Ralhis antarctiais. Profile head and neck. 

 Natural size. 



