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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



ATTAGIS MALOUINUS (Boddaert). 



Caille des isles Malouines, D'Aubent. PI. Enl. II. pi. 322. 



La Caille des isles, Buff.* Hist. Nat. Ois. II. p. 477 (1771). 



Malouine Quail, Lath. Gen. Syn. II. pt. 2, p. 786 (1783 : Falkland Islands). 



Tetrao malouinus, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 13 (1783). 



Tetrao falklandicus, Gm. Syst. Nat. I. p. 762 (1788). 



Perdix falklandica, Lath. Ind. Orn. II. p. 653 (1790). 



Coturnix falklandica, Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. p. 386 (1819). 



Attagis falklandica, Darwin, Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 117 (1841: Moun- 

 tains of the extreme southern parts of Tierra del Fuego) ; Des 

 Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. p. 385 (1847) ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 

 1868, p. 1 88 (Peckett Harbour, March); Cunningh. Nat. Hist. Str. 

 Magell. p. 183 (1871) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 12 (Cockle Cove, 

 Feb.). 



Attagis malouinus, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Part III. p. 51 (1844 : Straits 

 of Magellan: Hermit Island); Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 46 (Falkland 

 Islands) ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 154 (Mare Harbour, Falkland Is., 

 Oct.) ; Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 144. (1873) ; Oust. Miss. 

 Scient. Cap. Horn, Oiseaux, pp. 107, 330 (1891) ; Sharpe, Cat. Bds. 

 Brit. Mus. XXIV, p. 716 (1896) ; id. Hand-list Bds. I. p. 145 (1899) ; 

 Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) XX, p. 623 (1900 : Punta Arenas, May: 

 Santa Cruz, July : Punta Delgada, July) ; Martens, Hamb. Magalh. 

 Sammelr. Vog. p. 16 (1900: Straits of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, 

 Falkland Islands). 



Attagis sp. Vincig. Patag. p. 26 note (1883: Santa Cruz) ; id. Boll. Soc. 

 Geogr. Ital. (2) IX. p. 798 (1884). 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size, Adult. Total length, about 10.05 inches. 

 Wing, 6.7 inches. 

 Culmen, 0.6 inch. 



