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Patagonia, April); Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. IV. p. 666 (1898: 

 Uschuwaria-canal, Tierra del Fuego, March ; Port Stanley, Falkland 

 Is., May, common); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) XX, p. 624 (1900 : 

 Penguin Rookery, Feb.; Punta Arenas, May and June); Martens, 

 Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr. p. 14 (1900: Falkland Islands). 



Charadritts (Eudromias) modestus. Oust. Miss. Scient. Cap Horn, 

 Oiseaux, p. 1 1 1 (1891). 



Zonibyx modestus, Gates, Cat. Bds. Eggs Brit. Mus. II. p. 21 (1902); 

 Sharpe, Hand-list B. I. p. 153 (1899). 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size. Adult male. Summer plumage. (P. U. O. C. 7783. Near Mt. 

 Tigre, Patagonia, 23 August, 1896. J. B. Hatcher.) Total length, about 

 8 inches. 



Wing, 5.8 inches. 



Culmen, 0.75 inch. 



Tail, 2.7 inches. 



Tarsus, 1.3 inches. 



The adult female is a little larger than the adult male. 



Color. Adult male (cited). General color above glossy snuff brown, 

 darker on the rump ; below slate grey on chin and throat, then a broad 

 area of cinnamon chestnut, followed by a pectoral black band, the rest of 

 the lower surface being white. 



Head : The lores, base of forehead and sides of face below the eyes 

 slaty grey. A broad frontal band continued into an eyebrow and extend- 

 ing to the occiput, white. Crown rich snuff brown, darkest where it is 

 sharply defined against the white frontal band and eyebrows. 



Neck : Above and on the sides snuff brown. Below pale ashy grey in- 

 clining to whitish ; this shades into fine slate grey on the throat, the whole 

 confluent to the sides of the face. Forehead and lores as described. Lower 

 throat bright orange or cinnamon chestnut. 



Back : Rich glossy snuff brown darkening on the rump and upper tail 

 coverts. 



Tail : Central rectrices deep snuff brown inclining to umber. The outer 

 rectrices pure white. The next to the outer pair chiefly white, with two 

 black bars on their inner webs toward the tip of the feather. The third 

 outer pair of rectrices chiefly brown with white tips. The remainder of the 



