1886. ] ON BIRDS FROM TARAPACA, NORTHERN CHILI. - 395 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXV. 
Fig. 1, Azanus uranus, p. 366. 
. Tarucus extricatus, p. 366. 
Spindasis hypargyros, p. 369. 
Euchloé lucilla, p. 376. 
. Pyralis incongrua, p. 383. 
. Samea yerburii, p. 383. 
. Mustilia columbaris, p. 387. 
. Argyria cinerea, p. 387. 
. Epifidonia signata, p. 3‘)2. 
10. Abraxas fuscescens, p. 392. 
virginalis, p. 392. 
COD “IS: crip OY dO 
9. List of a Collection of Birds from the Province of Tara- 
pac, Northern Chili. By P. L. Scuarer, M.A., Ph.D., 
F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 
[Received June 25, 1886.] 
(Plate XXXVI.) 
Mr. H. Berkeley James, F.Z.S., has placed in my hands for 
determination a collection of bird-skins made for him by Carlos 
Rahmer, of the National Museum, Santiago, in the province of Tara- 
paca, formerly in Peru, but now, I believe, annexed to Chili. The 
collection, which was made in January and February last, contains 
150 skins referable to 53 species, amongst which a new Flamingo, 
as I shall presently point out, is of special interest. 
The nearest. fauna to Terapacd that has received much attention 
is that of the Desert of Atacama just to the south, which was 
explored in 1853-4 by Dr. R. A. Philippi, of Santiago’. Prof. 
Philippi’s list of birds contains 33 species, only 11 or 12 of which 
are identical with those in the present collection. 
But our leading authority on the Birds of Peru, of which Republic 
the district of Tarapaca until lately formed part, is Taczanowski’s 
‘Ornithologie du Pérou.’ I have, therefore, referred throughout to 
this most useful work except in the case of the following seven 
species, which are not included by Taczanowski, and are therefore 
additions to his avifauna, namely :—ASycalis aureiventris, Upucer- 
thia ruficauda, Synallaxis modesta, Bolborhynchus orbignesius, Pheeni- 
copterus jamest, Fulica leucoptera, and Atgialitis occidentalis, Of 
these seven, one ( Bolborhynchus orbignesius) was hitherto only known 
from Bolivia; two, so far as is yet ascertained, are peculiar to 
Tarapaca (namely Pheenicopterus jamesi and Aigialitis occidentalis), 
and the remaining four are Chilian species not hitherto recorded so 
far north. 
' The species in the present collection from Tarapacd which have 
not yet been met with in Chili are 20 in number, namely :— Zurdus 
1 ©Reise durch die Wiiste Atacama,’ &e. vy. Dr. R. A. Philippi: Halle, 1860. 
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