130 CATALOGUE OF BIRD SKELETONS — LUCAS. 



Tachyeres cinereus (Geml.). 



Latitude Cove, Patagonia, February 6. (18553.) Island Harbor, 

 Patagonia, February 8. (18484.) 



Both young specimeus; apparently young of the year, as the cranial 

 sutures are all open. 



Spatula platalea (V.)- 



Elizabeth Island, Straits of Magellan, January 20. (18549.) 



Family H^MATOPODID^. 

 Haematopus ater (Vieill.)- 

 Elizabeth Island, Straits of Magellan, January 20. (18548.) 



Haematopus luctuosus (Garn.). 

 Elizabeth Island, Straits of Magellan, January 20. (18547.) 



Family CHARADRIID^. 

 Belonopterus chilensis (MoL.)- 

 Elizabeth Island, Straits of Magellan, January 20. (185i6.) 



Family SCOLOPACID^. 

 Gallinago paraguayae (Vieill.). 

 Laredo Bay, Straits of Magellan, January 22. (18558.) 



Family LARID^. 

 Larus dommicanus (Light.). 

 Elizabeth Island, Straits of Magellan, January 20. (18545.) 



Larus fuliginosus (Gould). 



Chatham Island, Galapagos Group, April 4. (18500.) 



Creagrus furcatus (Neb.) 



Chatham Island, Galapagos Group, April 4. (18492.) 

 This unique skeleton is from a young bird, probably a year old. 

 There has been no time as yet to compare this skeleton carefully with 

 other species, but it makes no marked departure from the lariue type. 



Family DIOMEDEID^. 

 Diomedea oxulans (Linn.). 

 An adult specimen. (18554). 



Family SPHENISCID^. 

 Spheniscus magellanicus (Fokst.). 

 Mayne Harbor, Patagonia, February 5. (18541.) 

 Probably a bird of the year, as the xiphoid border of the sternum is 

 still cartilaginous and the cranial sutures open. 



