114 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



(Spkeniscus magellanicus], which, after standing erect and staring at us 

 in a stupid manner for a few moments, shuffled off; their little wings 

 hanging limp at their sides, and their dark gray and white colouring, and 

 reeling movements, suggesting a drunk and disorderly funeral procession. 

 When hard pressed they abandoned the erect position, and crouching 

 down on all fours, if I may be permitted the expression, ran along like 

 rabbits at a very rapid rate, using their wings as fore-legs, till they gained 

 their burrows, fairly ensconed in which they faced their pursuers, and, 

 slowly turning about their heads from side to side, barked and brayed in 

 the most ridiculous manner, offering a stout resistance to being captured 

 by biting most viciously with their strong bills. While contemplating 

 one individual in its den, I was suddenly startled by a loud ' Ho-ho-ho- 

 ho-ho ' close to me, and turning round perceived another bird, which had 

 boldly walked out of a neighboring burrow, and was thus addressing me." 

 (Cunn. Nat. Hist. Str. Magell., 1871, pp. 270-271.) 



Order PROCELLARIIFORMES. 



Sharpe, Classif. Birds, p. 71 (1891); id. Hand-List Bds. I. p. 120 (1899); 

 Pycraft, P. Z. S. 1899, pp. 381-411, pis. xxii. and xxiii. (Osteology). 



Family PROCELLARIID.E. 



Salvin, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXV. p. 342 (1896); Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Bds. p. 120 (1899). 



Subfamily OCEANITIN.E. 

 Salvin, t. c. p. 358 (1896); Sharpe, t. c. p. 122 (1899). 



Genus OCEANITES Keyserling & Blasius. 



Type. 



Oceamtes, Keyserling & Blasius, Wirb. Eur. ii. pp. xciii. 

 131, 238 (1840) ; Coues, Proc. Acad. Sci. Philad. 1864, 



