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Show 176 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON PERUVIAN BIRDS. [Feb. 27, 13. TINNUNCULUS SPARVERIUS (Linn.). 14. ZENAIDA AURICULATA, Des Murs. 15. CHAMAEPELIA CRUZIANA (d'Orb.). 16. THINOCORUS RUMICIVORUS, Eschsch. 17. CEDICNEMUS SUPERCILIARIS, Tschudi; Scl. et Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 59, t. xxx. A single adult specimen of this fine and distinct species, differing from the individual figured in our plate in the absence of the black stripe behind the eye, the greyer colouring of the head and neck, and the absence of the rufous edgings to the wing-coverts. In the present bird also the crissum is nearly pure white, and the bill is mostly black, the base of the mandible only being greenish. 18. CHARADRIUS VIRGINICUS, Borck. 19. iEGIALITES VOCIFERUS. Three specimens of this well-known species, apparently birds of the year. 20. A^EGIALITES NIVOSUS, Cassin. Two male specimens of this species in adult plumage. They serve to confirm our former impression* that Schlegel has made a mistake in uniting this Plover to the European JE. cantianus. The lores of the American bird are pure white ; in the European there is a black line between the eye and the base of the bill. 21. CALIDRIS ARENARIA (Linn.). 22. TRINGA BAIRDI, Coues ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 322. A single specimen, apparently in full winter plumage. 23. NUMENIUS HUDSONICUS (Lath.); Sclater, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 333. 24. GALLINULA GALEATA (Licht.) ; Tsch. F. P. Aves, p. 302. " Shot on the lake at Tambo." 25. FULICA CHILENSIS. Fulica chilensis, Gay, Faun. Chil. Atlas, t. 10; Hartl. J. f. 0. Extrah. 1854, p. 81. One example from the Laguna of Tambo. " Bill lavender-colour; eye bright red ; crown of head [i. e. shield ?] white ; legs and toes lavender. Large numbers of this Coot were seen, but they are shy and difficult to shoot." This skin we have no hesitation in referring to F. chilensis, as described by Hartlaub (I. s. ci). A similar specimen is in the British Museum (marked 1850/7/14/8), but has the head-shield bright * See P. Z. S. 1867, p. 331. |