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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXV. 



Fig. 1. A~anus uranus, p. 366. 



2. Tarums extricatus, p. 366. 



3. Spindasis hi/pargyros, p. 369. 



4. Euchloc lucilla, jj. 376. 



f). Fi/ralts iiwongrua, p. 383. 



6. Samea yerhurii, p. 383. 



7. Must'dia columharis, p. 387. 



8. Argyria cinerea, p. 387. 



9. Epijidonia signata, p. 392. 

 10. Abraxas fiiscesccns, p. 392. 

 IJ.. virginalis, -p. 392. 



9. List of a Collection of Birds from the Province of Tara- 

 paca, Northern Chili. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., 

 F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 



[Beceiyed June 25, 1886.] 

 (riate 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- 

 paea, 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 Tarapaca 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. 

 PhiHppi's list of birds contains 33 species, only U 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 Perou.' 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 tlierefore 

 additions to his avifauna, namely : — Sycalis aureiventris, Upiicer- 

 thia rvficauda, Synallaxis modesta, Bolhorhynchus orbignesius, Fhoeni- 

 copterus jamesi, Fulica leucoptera, and Mgialitis occidentalis. Of 

 these seven, one {Bolborhynchus orbignesius) was hitherto only known 

 from Bolivia ; two, so iar as is yet ascertained, are peculiar to 

 Tarapaca (namely Phoenicoptems jamesi and JEgialitis occidentalism, 

 and the remaining four are Ciiilian sjjecies not hitherto recorded so 

 far north. 



The species in the present collection from Tarapaca which have 

 not yet been met with in Chili are 20 in number, namely : — 'Vurdus 



* ' Eeise durch die Wiiste Atacama,' kc. v. Dr. R. A. Philippi : Halle, 1860. 



