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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I ZOOLOGY. 



Family STERCORARIID^E. 



Saunders, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXV. p. 314(1896). 

 Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 143 (1899). 



Genus MEGALESTRIS Bonaparte. 



Catharacta Briinn. Orn. Bor. p. 32 (1764) .... 



Lestris, Illiger, Prodr. p. 272 (1811 : part). 



Cataractes, Fleming, Phil. Zool. p. 263 (1822) . . . 



Stercorarius, Vieill, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. XXIII. p. 154 

 (1819) et auct. (part). 



Catarracta, Bp. Naum. 1854, p. 210 



Megalestris, Bp. Cat. Parzudaki, p. 11 (1856); Saun- 

 ders, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXV. p. 314 (1896); 

 Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 143 (1899) . . . 



Buphagus, Coues, Pro. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 

 125, ex. Moehring (1752) 



TYPE. 

 M. catarrhactes. 



M. catarrhactes. 



M. antarctica. 



M. catarrhactes. 



M. catarrhactes. 



Geographical Range. North and South Atlantic Ocean, the Southern 

 Indian Ocean, the Antarctic regions, the seas about New Zealand. 



MEGALESTRIS CHILENSIS (Bonaparte). 



Stercorarius antarcticus, Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 481 

 (1847); phil - & Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 47 (1868). 



Catarracta catarractes, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 99 (1854: 

 Chile). 



Lestris antarctica, Scl. & Salv. (nee Less), Ibis, 1869, p. 284 (Sta. Mag- 

 dalena, Straits of Magellan). 



Stercoraritis chilensis, Saunders, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 323, pi. XXIV. 1877 

 p. 800 (Straits of Magellan) ; id. Voy Chall. II. p. 140 (1880: Eliza- 

 beth Isl.); Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 17 (Talcahuano, Sept.: Straits 

 of Magellan); Oust. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, Oiseaux, pp. 172, 332 

 (1891 : Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Nov.). 



Megalestris chilensis, Saunders, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XX. p. 318 (1896); 

 Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. IV. p. 655 (1898; Coquimbo, Oct. : Sao 



