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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



A female adult and nestling of this species has been lately received by 

 the British Museum from the Valle del Lago Blanco, collected by J. 

 Koslowsky on November 20, 1900. 



FULICA RUFIFRONS Philippi & Landbach. 



Fulica leucopyga, Gray (nee Wagl.), Gen. B. III. p. 600 (1845); Burm. 

 Th. Bras. III. p. 390 note (1856: Montevideo); Schl. Mus. Pays- 

 Bas, Ralli, p. 64 (1865: Santiago); Pelz. Reis. Novara, Vog. p. 135 

 (1865: Chile); Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 467 fig. 9 (Chile; 

 Patagonia; Falkland Islands) ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 140 

 (1873); Durnf. Ibis, 1877, p. 42 (Chupat Valley, very common 

 breeds numerously); 1878, p. 66 (note on the nesting), p. 402 

 (lagoons and pools in the valleys of the Chupat, Sengel and 

 Sengelen) ; Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. Part X. p. 247 

 (1888: Straits of Magellan and Falklands) ; Scl. & Huds. Argent. 

 Orn. II. p. 157 (1889); James, New List Chil. B. p. 10 (1892); 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXIII. p. 220 (1894); Schalow, Zool. 

 Jahrb. Supp. IV. p. 667 (1898: Villa Rica, Oct.; La Serena, Oct.). 



Fulica leucopygia, Hartl. J. f. O. 1853, Extrah. p. 84; Withington, Ibis, 

 1888, p. 471 (Lomas de Zamora) ; Oust. Miss. Scient. Cap Horn, 

 Oiseaux, p. 135 (1891). 



Fulica chloropoides, Abbott (nee King), Ibis, 1861, p. 157 (Stanley Har- 

 bour, Falkland Islands). 



Fulica rufifrons, Phil. & Landb. Arch. f. Nat. XXVIII. p. 223 (1862); 

 iid. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 39 (1868); Leybold, Excurs. Pamp. Arjent. 

 p. 20 (1873); Sharpe, Hand-List B. I. p. no (1899); Oates, Cat. 

 Bds. Eggs, Brit. Mus. I. p. 131 (1901). 



