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On some Birds observed in Patagonia. 
form of the tarsus, being broader and more rounded in front, 
as well as the great difference in the colour of the tarsus, 
separate it immediately from G. galeata, and render its iden¬ 
tification easy. The characters just enumerated, in addition 
to its larger size and the quadrate frontal plate, separate it, 
a fortiori, from G. chloropus. 
Habitat. Island of Oahu, Hawaiian Group. 
The only direct reference to this bird which I have been 
able to find is made by Peale, in his f Ornithology of the U.S. 
Exploring Expedition/ p. 220. He undoubtedly obtained a 
specimen from the island of Oahu; but the skin was lost. In 
the description, which he gives from his field-notes, he states 
it to be G. chloropus , Aud., i. e. G. galeata. The allusion 
which he makes, however, to the crimson-coloured tarsi iden¬ 
tifies it with this species at once. 
Gray, in his f Hand-list of Birds/ gives the Sandwich 
Islands as a habitat of G. chloropus, Aud., as do also Hart- 
laub and Finsch, in the table of distribution of Central-Poly- 
nesian birds, which they give in the introduction to their 
work f Die Ornithologie der Yiti-, Samoa und Tonga Inseln. 5 
It is very probable that both of these authorities based their 
statements upon Peale^s original reference. 
III.— Nofps on some Birds observed in the Chuput Valley, 
Patagonia, and in the neighbouring District. By Henry 
Durnford* *. 
Hearing on the 25th October last that a steamer was to leave 
Buenos Ayres that afternoon for the Welsh colony at Chuput, 
I decided to accompany her, and having hastily packed the 
few things necessary, at 4 o^clock found myself on board the 
f Santa Bosa/ lying in the outer roads. Our party consisted 
of three, my two friends being as anxious as myself to see a 
* [The skins sent home by Mr. Durnford have been examined and 
determined by Mr. Salvin. The nomenclature used is generally that of the 
‘Nomenclator Av. Neotrop.’ For general information concerning the Welsh 
colony of Chuput, see u Reports received by the Admiralty from Oapt. 
H. Fairfax, R.N., of H.M.S. i Volage,’ upon the Condition of the Welsh 
Colony of Chuput in Patagonia ” (Pari. Papers, No. 18, of 1876).—Ed.] 
