TUEDUS MAGELLANICUS 39 



PASSERES 



Family TUEDID^ 

 TURDUS MAGELLANICUS (King) 



TurduS magellaniCUS, King, Pro. Zool. Soc, p. 14, 1830; Durnford, 

 Ibis, p. 392, 1878 ; Seebohm, Gat. Birds Brit. Mus., v, p. 223, pi. xiv, 

 1881; Sclater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., i, j). 3,1888; Oustalet, Miss. 

 Sci. Cap Horn, Ois., p. 79, 1891. 



TurduS falklandiae (nee Quoy et Gaimard), D'Orbigny, Voij. Amer. 

 Merid., Ois., p. 202, 1835. 



TurduS falklandicUS (nee Quay et Gaimard), Gould and Darwin, 

 Zool. Voy. " Beagle," Birds, p. 59, 1841. 



Habitat. — Chili, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego ; Mas Afnera and Juan 

 Fernandez Islands. 



? , Useless Bay Settlement, 26tli Aug. ; (^ , Rio McClelland Settlement, 

 20th Dec, 1904. 



Iris — dark brown ; bill, eyelids, and legs — pale orange. 



D'Orbigny and Darwin have not distinguished this species 

 from the closely allied T. falklandica. It differs — according to 

 Seebohm — in having the head nearly black, the upper parts 

 brown shading into dull slate on the rump, and the chin and 

 upper throat greyish white ; where the Falkland Islands' form has 

 the head chocolate brown, remaining upper parts rich russet 

 brown suffused with olive on the rump, and the chin and upper 

 throat pale russet brown. 



It is recorded by Darwin from Chiloe and Tierra del Fuego 

 — no locality stated ; by the " Erebus " and " Terror " from 

 Hermite Island ; and by the French Mission to Cape Horn from 

 various points in the same region. Durnford met with 

 a single specimen in Central Patagonia. 



The Magellan Thrush is common in scrub and in the out- 

 skirts of forest ; it does not frequent bare grass-land, except in 

 winter, when it may occasionally be seen in the neighbourhood 

 of settlements. I shot my first specimen on the flats at Useless 



