482 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



"694, male, Sandy Point. 



"Eyes white, bill black, feet yellow; stomach had pebbles, &c." 

 (Sclater & Salvin, on Birds Antarctic America, Voy. H. M. S. "Chall." 

 No. ix. p. 436, 1878.) 



Subfamily FULIGUUNAS. 



Salvad. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 326 (1895); Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Bds. I. p. 222 (1899). 



Genus METOPIANA Bp. 



Type. 



Metopiana, Bp. Compt. Rend. XLIII. p. 649, gen. 26 

 (1856); Salvadori, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 

 332 (1895); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. I. p. 222 (1899) M. peposaca. 



Metopias, Heine, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 347 (1890). 



Geographical Range. Peculiar to South America. 



METOPIANA PEPOSACA (Vieillot). 



Pato negrizco ala blanca, Azara, Apunt. III. p. 423 (1805: Paraguay & 



Buenos Aires). 

 Anas peposaca, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. V. p. 132 (1816) ; Hartl. 



Ind. Azara, p. 27 (1847) ; Burm. J. f. O. 1860, p. 267 ; id. La Plata 



Reise, II. p. 518 (1861 : Rio Parana). 

 Anas mepotias, Poppig, Fror. Notiz. xxxii. no. 529 p. 9 (1829); id. 



Fragm. Zool. Itin. Chil. p. 10 (1829). 

 Milouin en deuil, Less. Trait d'Orn. p. 632 (1831) ; Pucheran, Rev. et 



Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 636 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 420. 

 Anas albipennis, Licht. ; Meyen, Nova Acta XVI, Suppl. p. 119 (1833) ; 



Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 101 (1854: Montevideo). 

 Fuligula metopias, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Part III. p. 143 (1844) ; id. 



Gen. B. III. p. 621 (1844); Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. Zool. I. 



p. 456 (1847); Hartl. Naum. 1853, pp. 217, 222 (Valdivia) ; Cass. 



U. S. Astron. Exped. II. Birds, p. 204, pi. 27 (1856); Phil. & 



Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 43 (1868). 



