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Show 204 MR. H. SAUNDERS ON THE LARINEE. [Feb. 5, Gavia roseiventris, Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 97 (Falkland Islands). Larus roseiventris, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 391 ; Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 166 (Falkland Islands). Gavia glaucotis, Blasius, J. f. Orn. 1865, p. 374. Chroicocephalus glaucodes, G. R. Gray, Hand-1. Birds, iii. p. 114. Hab. Falkland Islands, Straits of Magellan, Western Patagonia, and coast of Chili. I cannot find any evidence of its occurrence in Eastern Patagonia; and certainly at the Chuput river, lat. 43° S., its place is taken by L. maculipennis. Specimens from the Falklands seem to be smaller on the average than Chilian examples ; but there is no other point of difference. 42. LARUS CIRRHOCEPHALUS, Vieill. Larus cirrhocephalus, Vieillot, in 2nd ed. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. t. xxi. p. 502 (1818), Brazil; id. Gal. des Ois. ii. p. 223, pl. 289 (1834); Schlegel, M. P.-Bas, Lari, p. 37 (1863); Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 578; iid. Nom. Av. Neotrop. p. 148 (1873) ; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 292 ; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 201. Larus poliocephalus, Temm. M. d'Orn. ii. p. 780 (1820); Max. v. Wied, Beitr. iv. p. 854 ; vide Salv. Ibis 1874, p. 320. Chroicocephalus cirrhocephalus, Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1853, p. 106. Cirrhocephalus plumbiceps, Bruch, J. f. Orn. 1855, p. 288. "Larus maculipennis, Licht.," Burm. Syst. Ueb. Th. Brasil. iii. p. 448 (1856), nee Licht. (Brazil coast, especially the small islands); id. La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 518. no. 256 (1861) (R. Parana). Gavia cirrhocephala (part.), Blasius, J. f. Orn. 1865, p. 376. Hab. Coast of Brazil, bays and lakes, down to Rio de la Plata, and up the Parana. Mr. Durnford did not observe it south of Buenos Ayres. On the Pacific coast it occurs near Callao, one specimen from Chorillos being in my own collection, and another, obtained by M. Grec of Lima at the Chinchas Islands in 1855, being in the Bordeaux Museum. 43. L A R U S PH^EOCEPHALUS, SW. Larus poiocephalus (sic), Swains. B. W . Afr. ii. p. 245, pl. 29 (1837) : ad. ex. believed to be the type, in Cambr. Mus. from Sene-gambia, examined, H. S. Xema phceocephala, Strickl. & Scl. B. of Damar., Contrib. Orn. 1852, p. 160. Gavia cirrhocephala (part.), Blasius, J. f. Orn. 1865, p. 376. Larus poiocephalus, Swains., Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 368 (1867), partim ; Barboza du Bocage, J. f. Orn. 1876, p. 293 (Cunene, Benguela). Larus pheeocephalus, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 252 (1857); id. J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 273 ; Finsch & Hartl. Vog. OstAfr. p. 825 (1870); Saunders, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 292. Cirrhocephalus poiocephalus, Gurney, Anderss. B. Damaral. p. 358 (1872). Hab. West Coast of Africa from the Gambia clown to Walvisch |
