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Female (one specimen), wing 111.5, tail 89.0, ciilmen from base 

 17.3, tarsus 28.2. 



Type (male), wing- 110.0, tail 87.3. culmen from base 17.0, tarsus 

 27.7. 



Range. — Straits of Magellan (Port Otway and Laredo Bay) north 

 to Lake Nahuel Huapi, Rio Negro. (Pacific Slope opposite head of 

 Rio Chico, Santa Cruz ; Rio Fetaleufu, and Puesto Burro, Maiten, 

 Chubut ; Bariloche, Rio Negro.) 



Remarks. — The present form is described from thirteen skins, from 

 the localities listed under the geographic range, which have been com- 

 pared with nine skins of typical pyrope from Santiago and Concon, 

 Chile. Birds in the Pemberton collection from western Chubut and 

 Rio Negro are paler than those from farther south, but are nearer 

 ignea than the typical form. 



Fyi 'tpe Kittlitzi Cabanis (1859, p. 45), a name that has been 

 applied to this flycatcher, is a synonym of Miiscicapa pyrope Kittlitz. 



Turdus magellanicus pembertoni subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Turdus magellanicus magellanicus King 

 (1831, p. 14), described from the Straits of Magellan, but much paler 

 both above and below ; under surface grayish. 



Description. — Type, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Cat. No. 

 43065, adult female, from Cerro Anecon Grande, Rio Negro, Argen- 

 tina, collected January 7, 1912, by J. R. Pemberton (orig. No. 126), 

 in somewhat worn breeding plumage. Crown, lores, and nape between 

 fuscous and fuscous-black ; forehead bleached to brownish drab ; sides 

 of head, hind neck, back, and wing coverts between drab and hair 

 brown, shading to mouse gray on rump ; upper tail coverts hair brown ; 

 remiges, primary coverts, alula, and rectrices dull black ; outer margin 

 of secondaries moiLse gray ; throat whitish streaked with fuscous-black, 

 save for a small area on lower throat which is immaculate ; sides of 

 neck, upper breast, sides, and flanks paler than drab; lower breast 

 and abdomen washed with pinkish buff; under tail coverts white, 

 bordered with mouse gray ; tibia light drab washed with buff on inner 

 side ; under wing coverts light drab, bordered indistinctly with a 

 wash of pinkish buff; inner webs of primaries bordered faintly Avith 

 light drab. Bill cream-buff; tarsus and toes Isabella color (from dried 

 skin ) . 



Measurements. — (In millimeters) : Males (two specimens), wing 

 128.2-129, tail 88.6-92.6, culmen from base 23.8, tarsus 38.4-39.0. 



Females (two specimens), wing 126.0 (type)-127.5, tail 95.7-96.7 

 (type), culmen from base 21.5-22.4 (type), tarsus 35.4-36.7 (type). 



Range. — Gobernacion de Rio Negro, Argentina, except in moun- 

 tainous western portion (Cerro Anecon Grande, and General Roca), 

 perhaps north into the province of Mendoza. 



