52 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



Fiilica chloropoides, King, Zool. Journ. IV. p. 95 (1828: Straits of Ma- 

 gellan); Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 438 (1847); 

 Hartl. Naum. 1853, p. 222 (Valdivia) ; Leyb. Excurs. Pamp. Argent. 

 p. 54 (1873). 



Fulica frontata, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Part iii. p. 124 (1844); Hartl. 

 Naum. 1853, p. 222 (Valdivia). 



Lysca armillata, Reichenb. Syst. Nat. p. xxi (1852). 



Fulica chilensis, Landb. (nee Des Murs) Arch, fur Nat. XXVIII. p. 215 

 (1862) ; Phil. & Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 39 (1868). 



Fulica leucopyga, Sharpe (nee Wagl. nee Licht) P. Z. S. 1881, p. 14 

 (Talcahuano). 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size. Total length, 18 inches. 



Culmen including frontal shield, 2.25 inches. 



Wing, 8.5 inches. 



Tail, 2.15 inches. 



Tarsus, 2.6 inches. 



FIG. 25. FIG. 26. 



Fulica armillata. Profile of head Fulica armillata. Showing shape of 

 and neck. ^ natural size. frontal shield. ^ natural size. 



Color. General color dark lead, deepest above, paler below. 



Head velvety black, throughout. 



Neck velvety black, throughout. 



Back, lower back, rump and upper tail coverts, deep lead color, with a 

 faint wash of olive. 



Wing : Like the back ; quills blackish, the first primary having a dis- 

 tinctly white edge to its outer web. 



Tail blackish. 



