482 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



"694, male, Sandy Point. 



"Eyes white, bill black, feet yellow; stomach had pebbles, &c." 

 (Sclater & Salvin, on Birds Antarctic America, Voy. H. M. S. "Chall." — 

 No. ix. p. 436, 1878.) 



Subfamily FULIGULIN^. 



Salvad. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 326 (1895); Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Bds. I. p. 222 (1899). 



Genus METOPIANA Bp. 



Type. 



Metopiana, Bp. Compt. Rend. XLIII. p. 649, gen. 26 

 (1856); Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 

 332 (1895); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 222 (1899) M. peposaca. 



Metopias, Heine, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 347 (1890). 



Geographical Range. — Peculiar to South America. 



Metopiana peposaca (Vieillot). 



Pato negrizco ala blanca, Azara, Apunt. III. p. 423 (1805 : Paraguay & 



Buenos Aires). 

 Anas peposaca, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. V. p. 132 (1816); Hartl. 



Ind. Azara, p. 27 (1847) 5 Burm. J. f. O. i860, p. 267 ; id. La Plata 



Reise, II. p. 518 (1861 : Rio Parana). 

 Anas mepotias, Poppig, Fror. Notiz. xxxii. no. 529 p. 9 (1829) ; id. 



Fragm. Zool. Itin. Chil. p. 10 (1829). 

 Milouin en deuil, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 632 (1831) ; Pucheran, Rev. et 



Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 636 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 420. 

 Anas albipennis, Licht. ; Meyen, Nova Acta XVI, Suppl. p. 119 (1833) ; 



Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. loi (1854: Montevideo). 

 Fuligula metopias, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Part III. p. 143 {1844) ; id. 



Gen. B. III. p. 621 (1844); Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. 



p. 456 (1847) ; Hartl. Naum. 1853, pp. 217, 222 (Valdivia) ; Cass. 



U. S. Astron. Exped. II. Birds, p. 204, pi. 27 (1856); Phil. & 



Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 43 (1868). 



