42 Vallentin, Notes on tJie Falkland Islands. 



olive to buff stone colour. The brown markings, which 

 are scattered over the Q.<g^ have a decided tendency to 

 collect as a zone at the larger end. The eggs vary in 

 length from 60 to 65 mm. and from 40 to 43 mm. in breadth. 



Larus glaucodes, " Pink-breasted Gull." This species 

 seems to be very locally distributed. I have never seen 

 it on any part of the Falklands I have visited. The two 

 eggs in my collection, kindly given to me by a friend, 

 came from the north-western corner of the East Island. 

 They are both oval in form and irregularly spotted with 

 dark brown, their ground colour being grey. They 

 measure respectively 44 and 45 mm. in length, and 35 

 and 34 mm. in breadth. 



Sterna hinmdinacea, " Tern," " Split - tail." This 

 beautiful bird is very locally distributed over the Falkland 

 Isles. Soon after my arrival at Stanley in November, 

 several of these birds were observed in the harbour, but 

 about the nesting time, December, they vanished and 

 were not seen again. Like the black-backed gull this 

 species does not nest twice in the same place. I have 

 two eggs of this bird in my collection. One of these is 

 slightly more pointed than the other. They are roughly 

 oval in shape, the ground colour is buff-coloured, and the 

 spots of reddish brown are uniformly distributed over 

 both eggs. Length 49 mm., breadth 66 mm. 



Asio accipitrinus, " Owl." I examined a beautiful 

 stuffed specimen of this species which was killed near 

 Hill Cove, West Falklands, but unfortunately my notes 

 are lost. I have never obtained the eggs of this bird. 



Anthus antarcticus. I believe this to be the correct 

 name of a pretty pipit so abundant on the "camp" of 

 these islands. The nest is made of bents lined with fine 

 grasses and placed on the ground. It measures 55 mm. 

 in diameter. The eggs, which are always laid during the 



