AVES ANATID/e. 489 



Nat Hist Str. Magell. p.*94 (1871); id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 262; 



Trans. Zool. Soc. VII. pp. 493-501 pis. 58-62 (1871 : Anatomy) ; 



Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Ncotr. p. 130 (1873); Gigl. Viagg. 



Magenta, pp. 933-963 (1876) ; Oust Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, Oiseaux, 



p. 212 pi. IV. (1891) ; Lataste, Actcs Soc Scient Chil. III. p. cxxii. 



(1893: Str. Magell.). 

 Anas pteneros, Forst Icon. ined. pi. 68; id. Descr. Anim. p. 338 (1844: 



Magellan). 

 Fuligula cinerea, Schl. Dierent p. 274 cum fig. (1864) ; id. Mus. Pays 



Bas. VI. Anseres, p. 13 (1866). 



Camptolaimns cinereus, Gray, Handl. B. III. p. 88, no. 10704 (1871). 

 Tachyeres brachypferns, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. IX. p. 254 (1875). 

 Tachyeres cinereus, Cunningh. Nat Hist Str. Magell. pp. 88, 91, 93 cum 



tab. p. 154 (1871) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 402, 1878, p. 437 



(Messier Channel : Tom Harbour : Port Churrucha : Falkland Isl.) ; 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 310 (egg), 1880, p. 529; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 



1881, p. 13 (Straits of Magellan) ; Scl. & Salv. Voy. Chall. II. Birds, 



pp. 107, 150 (1881); Reichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 17; Stejn. 



Stand. Nat Hist IV. p. 149 (1885); Macfarl. Ibis, 1887, p. 202; 



Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. part X. p. 248 (Straits of 



Magellan : Falkland Isl. : Puerto Deseado) ; Ridgw. Proc. U. S. 



Nat Mus. XII. p. 138 (1889: Elizabeth Isl.); James, New List Chil. 



B. p. 10 (1892) ; Salvad. Cat B. Brit Mus. XVII. p. 373 (1895) ; 



Lane, Ibis, 1897, p. 195 (Corral, Oct NOV.) ; Schalow, Zool. Jahrb. 



Suppl. IV. p. 672 (1898: Calbuco, Dec.); Sharpe, Hand-list B. I. 



p. 224 (1899); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) XX, p. 633 (1900: 



Penguin Rookery, Feb. : Rio Pescado, May) ; Martens, Hamb. 



Magalh. Sammelr. Vog. p. 25 (1900 : Straits of Magellan : Falkland 



Islands). 

 Micropterus macropterus, Gigl. Viagg. Magenta, p. 934 (1876). 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size. Male adult, no. 8847, P. U. O. C. Rio Negro, Patagonia, Feb- 

 ruary, 1898. (From Museo de La Plata in exchange; original number 25.) 



Total length, about 29 inches. 



Wing, 8.5. 



Culmen, 2.3. 



Tail, 5. 



