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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



Geographical Range. — Southern Ocean: Falkland Islands, Kerguelen 

 Island, New Zealand and Australian Coast. 



Garrodia nereis (Gould). 



Thalassidroma nereis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 178; Gray, Gen. B. III. 

 p. 648 (1844); Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 98 (Falkland Islands); Scl. 

 P. Z. S. i860, p. 390 (Falkland Isl.) ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 164 

 (Falklands, March, picked up dead) ; Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos 

 Aires, III. Part X. p. 248 (1888: Falkland Isl.); Oust. Miss. Sci., 

 Cap Horn, Oiseaux, pp. 307, 332 (1891 : Falklands). 



Proccllaria nereis, Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 148 (1873). 



Garrodia w^rm, Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXV. p. 361 (1896) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-List Bds. I. p. 122 (1899) ; Martens, Hamb. Magalh, Sammelr. 

 p. 18 (1900: Falkland Islands); Oates, Cat. Bds. Eggs, Brit. Mus. 

 I. p. 150 (1901). 



Fig. 69. 



Fig. 70. 



Garrodia nereis. Profile of head. From 

 material in the British Museum. Natural 

 size. 



Garrodia nereis. Head from above. From 

 material in the British Museum. Natural 

 size. 



General description. 



Size. Adnlf. — Total length, about 6.7 inches. 

 Wing, 5.2 inches. 

 Bill, 0.65 inch. 

 Tarsus, 1.25 inch. 



