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ORNITHOLOGY. 



plumage, is the species alluded to in the descriptions by Latham and 

 Wagler, cited above. It appears to be rather a common bird of 

 Western South America. 



3. HiATICULA FUSCA [Oould). 



Squatarola fusca, GouLD, Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 126 (1841). 

 Charadrius ruhecola, King, Zool. Jour. IV, p. 96 (1828) ? 



From Tierra del Fuego. Specimens in the collection of the Expe- 

 dition, and in that of the Philadelphia Academy, have to us the ap- 

 pearance of young birds, though undoubtedly the species described by 

 Mr.. Gould, as above ; Charadrius rubecola, King, may be the adult of 

 this bird, and, judging from the description, it is approached by one 

 specimen in the present collection, in which the wide pectoral band 

 assumes a light rufous color. It has also some indications of the black 

 subpectoral band as described originally, as above cited. 



Though we have little doubt that the birds here alluded to are 

 identical, and that the names above cited are synonymes, neither of 

 them is, by any possibility, identical with Vanellus cinctus, Lesson, Voy. 

 Coquille, PI. XLIII, as has been supposed by several ornithologists. 

 Of the last bird, specimens are in the collection of the Philadelphia 

 Academy. 



4. Genus SARCIOPHORUS, Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1841, p. 32. 

 1. Sarciophoeus tricolor {Vieillot). 



Charadrius tricolor, ViElLL. Nouv. Diet. XXVII, p. 147 (1818). 

 " Charadrius pectoralis, Cuv. Mus. Paris," Wagler Syst Av. (1827). 

 Charadrius vanelloides, Peale, Zool. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 240 (1st ed. 1848).* 



* " In general aspect and habits, like the ' Spur-wing Plovers' of South America and 

 Australia ( Vanellus Cayensis and Gallinaceus), but not much more than half their size. 

 Crown, suborbital stripe, and breast, black ; auricular stripe, throat, belly, thighs, and 

 tail-coverts, white ; back yellowish-brown, very pale on the back part of the neck, and 

 darkening towards the ends of the scapulars, which are very long, and towards the ends 

 of the greater wing-coverts, which are nearly black, the whole glossed with delicate pur- 



