336 MR. p. L. SCLATER ON CHILIAN BIRDS. [Mar. 28, 



p. 26) seems to be only the young of this species, as far as I can 

 make it out. 



Fam. PelecanidjE. 



Schlegel unites Pelecanus thagus sive molincB with P. fuscus, and 

 also indicates Pelecanus ji^'ifippensis as occurring in ChiU ! (Mus. 

 de P.-B. Pelecani, pp. 28, 35). In the former identification I be- 

 heve he is wrong. In the latter also I think there must be an 

 error. The question is, are there two species of Pelican found in 

 Chili ? If so, the second is more likely to be P. frachyrhynchus. 



Dr. Hartlaub gives five species of Cormorants as occurring in Chili. 

 But P. gracilis seems, according to Bonaparte (Consp. ii. p. 173), to 

 be scarcely separable from P. brazilianus ; and P. albigiUa, Brandt, 

 is P. bougainvillii. Lesson. On the other hand we may add P. 

 cirrhatus and P. purpurascensy Brandt, if Bonaparte's localities 

 (Consp. ii. pp. 174, 177) are to be trusted ; and there will thus re- 

 main still five Chilian species, besides GracuJus elegans of Philippi 

 (Wiegm. Arch. 1850, p. 303), which may possibly be the same as 

 one of the former. 



Sula variegata of Tschudi, which was referred by Bonaparte, 

 doubtfully, to S. cyanops, is recognized by Pelzelu (Novara-Reise, 

 Aves, p. 157) as a distinct species ; but is this view correct? 



Fam. Procellariid^. 



Messrs. Philippi and Landbeck's Thalassidroma segethi (Wiegm. 

 Arch. 18G0, p. 282) seems to be identical with Thalassidroma gra- 

 cilis, Elliot (Ibis, 1859, p. 391), which name has the priority. Pro- 

 cellaria oceanica, Kuhl, and P. melanogastra, Gould, are also given 

 by Schlegel as having been obtained on the coast of Chili by D'Or- 

 bigny. Pvffinus carneij)es, Gould, and Thalassoica glacialioides 

 (Smith) are also Chilian, on the same authority. I follow Dr. 

 Schlegel also in referring the Ilalodroma of the western coast of South 

 America to H. garnoti. 



Fam. LARiD^iE. 



Larus kittlitzii of Bruch is founded on a figure of a bird obtained 

 on the Chilian coast by KiUlitz, and may probably be the same as 

 Larus franklini, which was obtained by liurnett and Fitzroy at Val- 

 paraiso, and has been recently redescribed by Messrs. Philippi and 

 Landbeck as Larus cinereocaudatus (Wiegm. Arch. 1861, p. 293). 

 So we may strike L. kittlitzii out of Dr. Hartlaub's list, and in lieu 

 thereof put in Larus modestus, Tsch. (L. bridgesi, Fraser), obtained 

 by Bridges at Valparaiso. Larus scoresbii. Trail {hcematurhynchus, 

 King), occurs in Southern ChiU. 



The only Terns which I can identify positively as occurring on the 

 Chilian coast are : — (1) Sterna cassini, nobis (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 391, 

 = .S. antarcfica, Peale, nee Less., nee Forst. = (S'. meridionalis, Cassin, 

 nee Brehm), allied to our iS". hirundo and S. macrura ; (2) a small 

 species, named in the British JNIuseum " Sterna exilis, Tsch.," of 



