Plate LX. 



FULICA LEtJCOPTERA 



(STEICKLAND'S COOT). 



T'ocha 



Fulica leucoptera 



Fulica strichlandi 

 Fulica ohloropo'ides 



Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 472, No, 447. 



Vieill. N. D. xii. p. 48 ; et Enc. Meth. p. 343. 



Burm. la Plata-Eeise, iii. p. 505. 



Hartlaub, Journ. f. Orn. 1853, Bxtrah. p. 86. 



Landbeck, Wiegm. Arch. 1862, p. 218. 



Obscure ardesiaca, capite undique nigricante : crisso albo, plumis quibusdam medialibus nigris : flexura alari et 

 remigis esterni margine angusto necoon secondariorum quorumdam apicibus albis : rostro flavo, clypeo frontali minora, 

 supra rotundato, aurantiaco : pedibus olivaceis : long, tota 15'0, alae 7'S, caudae 2'3, rostri a rictu 1'25, tarsi 2'4, dig. 

 med. c. ungue 3'5. 



Hah. in Paraguaja, et rep. Argentina {^Azara) -. rep. Uruguayensi (Sellotv) -. Parana (Burmeister) : Bolivia int. 

 \Behn) -. Chilia {Landbech) . 



We think there can be no doubt that this species of Coot, which was first correctly described 

 by Dr. Hartlaub in 1853, and proposed to be called F. strichlandi^ is the same as that called 

 by Azara in 1852 " La Focha^'' upon which Vieillot established his F. leucoptera. We have, 

 therefore, followed Burmeister in using the latter name, and trust that our excellent friend Dr. 

 Hartlaub will excuse us for doins: so. 



Azara obtained specimens of this bird in Paraguay and in the vicinity of Buenos Ayres. 

 Burmeister met with it on the lagoons near Parana in the Argentine Republic, Sellow 

 transmitted examples to the Berlin Museum from the vicinity of Santa Lucia in the republic of 

 Uruguay. Professor Behn of Kiel, as we are informed by Dr. Hartlaub, shot a specimen of it 

 in the month of June on a pool near San Miguel in the Bolivian Province of Chiquitos. It 

 would thus appear that this species has a considerable range over the southern portion of South 

 America on this side of the Andes. Westward of the great momitain-chain it is one of the 

 three Chilian species concerning which Herr Landbeck has lately given us so many interesting 

 details, but we do not know how far, it ranges to the south upon this coast. 



Fulica leucoptera is easily distinguishable from all its South American congeners by having 

 the ends of the first five or six secondaries next adjoining the primaries tipped with white, 

 resembling iu this particular the northern F. dm^-icana. The white margin to the outer 



