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5. A List of the Birds collected by Captain A. H. Markham 

 ou the West Coast of America. By Osbert Salvin, 

 M.A., F.B.S. 



[Received June 18, 1883.] 



The following list contains the names of the birds' skins collected by 

 Captain Albert Hastings Markbam of H.M.S. ' Triumph,' during 

 the time be bad command of that ship, when forming one of the 

 squadron of the Pacific Station. From this list the greater portion 

 of the Laridae have been omitted, as they have already formed the 

 subject of a paper by Mr. Howard Saunders (P.Z.S. 1882, pp. 520 

 et seqtj.). 



The birds now before ns are 149 in number, and were obtained 

 at various points of the western shores of the Pacific from Esquimalt 

 in the north to the Straits of Magellan in the south, including some 

 from the Galapagos Islands and from the island of Juan Fernandez ; 

 the greater portion, however, are from the coasts of Peru and Chili. 



Amongst those of the former country, I find a species of Geothlij- 

 pis, which appears to me to be undescribed ; there is also an example 

 of a fine Albatross, which I have been unable to determine ; and 

 another Petrel, congeneric with our Fork- tailed Petrel, requires a 

 name. Besides these novelties, the collection is rich in specimens of 

 Procellariidae, of which there are representatives of no less than four- 

 teen species in all. 



The references given to each species are taken from published me- 

 moirs relating to the country where they were obtained, or from 

 some general work on the region to which they belong. Captain 

 Markham deserves the thanks of ornithologists for his industry in 

 amassing so large a collection during the intervals of the many duties 

 involved in the command of a large ironclad in active service. We 

 only hope that his example may frequently be followed. 



1. TuRDUS MAGELLANicus, King; Salv. Ibis, 1875, p. 3/6. 



Juan Fernandez, March 1882. 



A young bird assuming its second plumage, which is perhaps a 

 shade darker than that of adult individuals from the mainland. 



2. TuRDUS FLAViROSTRis (Sw.) ; Salv. & Godm. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i. p. 21, t. 3. f. 1. 



Acapulco, Mexico. 



3. Troglodytes furvus (Gm.). 



Coquimbo, November 1881. 



Two specimens resembling other Chilian examples which have 

 been called T. hornensis by Lesson (c/. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 vi. p. 257). 



4. Anthus correndeka, Vieill. ; Scl. Ibis, 1878, p. 362. 

 $ . Coquimbo. 



