334 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS ! ZOOLOGY 



Scolopax frenata, Burm. (nee Licht), La Plata Raise, II. p. 503 (1861) ; C. 



Burm. Ann. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. part X. p. 246 (1888: 



Patagonia) ; Carbajal, La Patagonia, part II. 173 (1900). 

 Gallinago frenata, Durnf. (nee. Licht.) Ibis, 1876, p. 164 (Buenos Aires, 



Oct. ? breeding). 

 Scolopax frenata magellanica, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 496 



(1888). 

 Scolopax frenata chilensis, Seebohm, t. c. p. 496. 

 Gallinago paragnayce c/ii/ensis, Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. IV. p. 661 



(1898: La Serena, Oct.; Punta Arenas, Feb.). 

 Gallinago paraguaycc niagellanicns, Schalow, t. c. p. 661 (Seno Almiran- 



tazgo, Tierra del Fuego, Jan.; Buschuwaria, Beagle Canal, March). 



General description. 



Size. — Adult male. 



Total length, about 1 1 inches. 



Wing, 5 inches. 



Culmen, 2.6 inches. 



Tail, 2 inches. 



Tarsus, 1.25 inch. 



The adult female is usually larger than the adult male. Adult female. 

 (P. U. O. C. 7795, near head of Rio Mayer, Patagonia, 8 March, 1897. 

 J. B. Hatcher.) Total length, about 11.8 inches. 



Wing, 5.3 inches. 



Culmen, 2.8 inches. 



Tail, 2.25 inches. 



Tarsus, 1.25 inch. 



Color. — Adult female (cited). General color above black mottled and 

 decorated with creamy and sandy buff. Below, creamy buff marked and 

 decorated with blackish, until the chest is reached, thence white or buff 

 white, plain on the lower breast and abdomen and barred on the sides 

 and flanks with blackish. 



Head : Crown. A median narrow line of sandy cream color. A broad 

 black or blackish brown band running parallel to the median creamy line 

 on each side. These dark bands defined on their outer edges by a sandy 

 cream eyebrow streak. This streak runs to the bill and is defined in the 

 loral region by a broad blackish brown streak running back to the eye 



