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locally called, were obtained, an adult on January 12th, 1903, and a young bird of the 

 year on February 1st, 1904. A description of the latter is appended : 



Measurements: Length (skin) about 24 ins.; wing 1175 ins.; culmen 27 ins.; 



tarsus 3 '2 ins. 



Back, scapulars, and wing-coverts nearly uniform brown with a rusty tinge. Some 

 reddish-yellow and white tips among the lesser wing-coverts. Bastard wing 

 and primary coverts tipped with white. Quills and tail dark grey with a rusty 

 tinge. Feathers of head, neck, and under parts dusky brown with broad white 

 and yellowish-white shaft- streaks, crown blackish-brown. Bill blackish at tip 

 and along culmen, remainder yellow-brown. Feet dark brown (in dried skin). 

 The adult is a male. The bill and interior of mouth were noted as black, the 

 iris red ; its stomach was full of fish. 



This bird was rather rare in the islands, according to the accounts of the islanders, 

 though Dr Bruce previously obtained it when he visited the Falklands in 1892. 

 Phalacrocorax magellanicus (Gin.). Twelve skins are in the collection. 

 Five of these are adults. These were shot on January 7th, 1903 (one), and February 

 1st, 1904 (four). There is no trace of a crest, and black of the throat and foreneck is 

 being replaced with the white of the winter plumage to a varying degree. 



(a) 7.1.03. Has a small white spot on the chin, but the feathers between the 



rami of the mandible are black. 



(b) 1.2.04. Ditto, but a small white cheek-spot also. 



(c) 1.2.04. As (b). 



(d) 1.2.04. Indistinct white patch on throat, white cheek-spot. 



(e) 1.2.04. Feathers between mandibular rami and chin pure white, throat mottled 



white, white cheek-spot. 



Six full-grown young birds with brown down still adhering to the feathers of head 

 and neck were obtained at Tussock Islands in Port William on February 1st, 1904, where 

 numbers of them were seen. Three of these are glossy brownish black on head, neck, 

 upper parts, and thighs, with the belly greyish brown. The rest are similar except as 

 to the belly. One has this blackish brown ; one has it nearly white, only the tips of 

 some of the feathers being blackish ; and the last shows white, but to a much less 

 marked extent. 



Phalacrocorax albiventer (Lesson). One adult was obtained at Cape Pembroke in 

 January 1903. 



Buteo erythronotus King. An immature bird was obtained on January 21st, 1903. 



Milvago australis (Genl.). " The hawk known as the Johnny Rook " is logged as 

 having been seen during the Scotia's first visit to the Falklands. It is quite a familiar 

 bird in the vicinity of Port Stanley. 



"Turkey-buzzards" (Cathartes sp.) were seen during the third visit. 



Larus glaucodes Meyen. - - One adult skin is in the collection, obtained on 

 February 1st, 1904, at Tussock Islands, where many were seen. In life, this gull has 



