TURDUS MAGELLANICUS, King. 
MAGELLAN THRUSH. 
Turdus magellanicus, King, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 14. 
Turdus falklandie, D'Orb. Voy. Amer. Mérid., Ois. р. 202 (c. 1840). 
Turdus falklandicus, part. (пес О. € G.), Gould in Darwin's Voy. * Beagle, ii. p. 59 (1841); 
Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. v. p. 223, pl. xiv. (1881). 
Merula falklandica (пес О. & G.), Cass. U.S. Expl. Exped., Mamm. & Orn. p. 157 (1858). 
Turdus falklandicus (nec Q. & G.), Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 451. 
T. gutture striato: pedibus flavis: pileo nigro, haud dorso concolore: suprà olivascenti-griseus, vel olivascenti- 
brunneus (Aiem.): subtüs pallidé ochraceus. 
Тнк present species appears to be a very common bird in Chili, especially in the vicinity of 
Santiago, whence many specimens obtained by Dr. Landbeck and Mr. E. C. Read are in the 
Berkeley-James and Salvin-Godman Collections. It evidently breeds in that province, as young 
birds are represented іп the series. Мг. A. A. Lane has also obtained both young and old birds 
at the Hacienda Mansel, near Hospital in Santiago, as well as at Coronel near Concepcion (ef. Ibis, 
1897, pp. 9, 12). 
Darwin records the species from the island of Chiloe (Voy. * Beagle,’ ii. p. 59), and it is probably 
found everywhere down to the Straits of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego, where again it was noticed 
by Darwin (0. c.)  Peale also records his finding fully-grown young birds at Orange Bay in the 
last-named island in February (Cass. U.S. Expl. Exped., Orn. p. 157). The Antarctic Expedition 
met with the species on Hermit Island, where Dr. McCormick obtained specimens. 
This Thrush has been noticed in many places in the Straits of Magellan. During the voyage of 
H.M.S. ‘Challenger,’ Sir John Murray procured examples at Port Currucha in January, and at 
Gray's Harbour in Messier Channel (Scl. € Salv. P. 2. S. 1818, p. 431). During the voyage of 
H.M.S. * Alert, Dr. Coppinger met with it at Sandy Point and Isthmus Bay in January, and at Tom 
Bay in February, as well as at Cockle Cove in October (Sharpe, P. 2. S. 1881, p. 7). Тһе US. 
Fish Commission Ship ‘ Albatros’ has also procured it at Laredo, Port Otway, and Port Currucha 
(Ridgway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xii. p. 131). 
The species likewise occurs on the Juan Fernandez Islands, specimens having been brought 
thence by Sir John Murray during the Voyage of H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ (P. Z. S. 1878, p. 431). 
It is apparently found throughout Patagonia up to the Rio Negro. Mr. Henry Durnford shot 
a specimen in the valley of the Sengel, in Central Patagonia, on the 16th of November. It was the 
only one he saw and was in company with Myiotheretes rufiventris (Ibis, 1878, p. 392). Mr. У. Н. 
Hudson writes:—* This Thrush, which I met with on the Rio Negro of Patagonia, so closely 
approximates to 7. rufiventris in colour, language, and habits, that the casual observer finds it 
difficult to distinguish one from the other. Its nest and eggs are also precisely like those of its 
northern representative. The song is, however, much poorer, and reminds one of the first attempts 
of a young bird. That a member of so melodious a family should have so inferior a song I attribute 
to the fact that Thrushes (unlike the songsters of other genera) sing only in the warm season and 
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