AVES LARID^E. 223 



Geographical Range. Southern South America, south to the Antarctic 

 Land beyond Cape Horn. The Falkland Islands. The New South 

 Shetland Islands. 



LEUCOPH^EUS SCORESBYI (Traill). 



Larus scoresbii, Traill, Mem. Wern. Soc. IV. p. 514 (1823) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1860, p. 391 (Falkland Islands); Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 165 (Falk- 

 land Islands, breeding in Dec.); Schl. Mus. Pays Bas. VI. Lari p. 

 33 (1863) ; Pelz. Reis. Novara, Vog. p. 151 (1865: Island of Chiloe) ; 

 Saunders, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 184; id. Jour. Linn. Soc. XIV. p. 397 

 (1878); Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. part X. p. 248 

 (1888: S. Patagonia and Falkland Islands); Oust. Miss. Sci. Cap 

 Horn, Oiseaux, p. 179, pi. 3 (1891: Santa Cruz: Gabble Island: 

 Packsaddle Island: Orange Bay); James, New List Chil. B. p. 12 

 (1892); Scl. Ibis, 1894, pp. 495, 497. 



Larus hczmatorhynchus, King. Zool. Journ. IV. p. 103 (1828); id. Voy. 

 Advent. & Beagle, I. p. 541 (1839: Straits of Magellan); Darw. 

 Voy. "Beagle," Birds, p. 142 (1841: Port St. Julian, Patagonia); 

 Gray, List Bds. Brit. Mus. Part III. p. 170(1844: Berkeley Sound, E. 

 Falkland Is.) ; Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 381 (1847) ; 

 Phil. & Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 48 (1868: Chiloe). 



Leucophceus hczmatorhynchus, Bruch. J. f. O. 1853, p. 108, 1855, p. 287. 



Chroicocephalus hcematorliynchtis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 98 

 (1854: Chile). 



Leucophczus scoresbii, Bp. Consp. Av. II. p. 231 (1857); Scl. & Salv. P. 

 Z. S. 1871, p. 579; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 148 (1873); Saun- 

 ders, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXV. p. 299 (1896: East Coast of Pata- 

 gonia, 45 S., Aug.); Martens. Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr. p. 17 

 (1900). 



Ixucophceus scoresbyi, Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 143 (1899) ; Carbajal, 

 La Patagonia, II. p. 280 (1900); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) XX. 

 p. 629 (1900: Rio Pescado, May); Gates, Cat. Bds. Eggs, Brit. 

 Mus. I. p. 222 (1901). 



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GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size. Adult male (breeding). Total length, about 18 inches. 



Wing, 13.2 inches. 



