This Coot is very readily distinguishable from other known species by the peculiar shape of 

 the frontal shield, which is narrow and elongated, and instead of being rounded above. 





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terminates in an acute angle, as shewn in our figure. In the living bird this shield is described as 

 of a dark blood-red, and it appears to retain nearly the same colour in the dried skin. A second 

 character, which absolutely distinguishes this Coot from all others of the white-rumped section, 

 is the absence of the white margin of the first primary. There are, however, a few whitish 

 edgings to the small feathers on the bend of the wing. 



This Coot appears to have nearly the same distribution as Fulica armillata. Although it has 

 not yet been recorded from the Argentine Eepublic, it must certainly occur there, if the locality 

 of Uruguay, given by Hartlaub on the authority of Sellow, is correct. In Chili it is one of the 

 three species of which Herr Landbeck has given us such an excellent account. The late Mr. 

 Bridges likewise obtained specimens of it in Chili, from one of which, now in the Derby 

 Museum at Liverpool, our figure has been prepared. King's Fulica chloropoides, if we are 

 right in referring it to this species, was obtained in Patagonia. There is a specimen of this 

 bird in the British Museum said to have been obtained during the surveying-voyage of the 

 " Erebus and Terror" in the Falkland Islands, and in 1859 Capt. Abbott shot a single example, 

 believed to have been of this species, in the same country. 



Our figure of this bird, as likewise of the other Coots in this Part, is one half of the size of 

 nature. 



August, 1868, 







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