SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF EXPLORATIONS BY THE U. S. FISH COM- 

 MISSION STEAMER ALBATROSS. 



I Published by puimissiou of Hon. Marshall McDonald, Commissioner of Fisheries j 



NO. XIII.— CATALOGUE OF SKELETONS OF BIRDS COLLECTED AT THE 

 ABROLHOS ISLANDS, BRAZIL, THE STRAITS OF MAGELLAN, AND THE 

 GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, IN 1887-'88. 



BY 



Frederic A. Lucas, 



Assistant Curator of the Department of Cainparatiz'e Anatomy. 



Besides the skeletons noted in the following list there is a large num- 

 ber of birds in alcohol, available for anatoiuical purposes. 



Family PICID.E. 



Campephiliis niagellanicus (KiNG). 



Straits of Magellan. (18482.) 



Family AKID.E. 

 Pyrrhura smaragdiiia (Gmel.). 



Sandy Point, Straits of Magellan, January 27. (18550.) 



Family FALCONID^. 

 Faico peregrinus (Tunst.). 

 Cerros Island, Lower California. (18477.) 



Polyborus tharus (Mol.). 

 Straits of Magellan. (18478.) 



Milvago chimango (Vieill.). 

 Laredo Bay, Straits of Magellan, January 22. (18473, 18474.) 



Family BUTEONID.E. 



Buteo galapagoensis (Gould). 



Duncan Island, Galapagos Group, April 13. Three specimens. (18470, 

 18472, 185G0.) 

 The species has not hitherto been recorded from this locality. 



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