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Show ^83.] ON BIRDS FROM WESTERN AMERICA. 419 5. A List of the Birds collected by Captain A. H. Markham on the West Coast of America. By OSBERT SALVIN, M.A., F.R.S. [Received June 18, 1883.] The following list contains the names of the birds' skins collected Captain Albert Hastings Markham of H.M.S. ' Triumph,' during the time he had command of that ship, when forming one of the squadron of the Pacific Station. From this list the greater portion of the Laridae have been omitted, as they have already formed the subject of a paper by Mr. Howard Saunders (P.Z. S. 1882, pp. 520 et seqq.). The birds now before us are 149 in number, and were obtained at various points of the western shores of the Pacific from Esquimalt in the north to the Straits of Magellan in the south, including some from the Galapagos Islands and from the island of Juan Fernandez ; the greater portion, however, are from the coasts of Peru and Chili. Amongst those of the former country, I find a species of Geothly-pis, which appears to me to be undescribed ; there is also an example of a fine Albatross, which I have been unable to determine; and another Petrel, congeneric with our Fork-tailed Petrel, requires a name. Besides these novelties, the collection is rich in specimens of Procellariida?, of which there are representatives of no less than fourteen species in all. The references given to each species are taken from published memoirs relating to the country where they were obtained, or from some general work on the region to which they belong. Captain Markham deserves the thanks of ornithologists for his industry in amassing so large a collection during the intervals of the many duties involved in the command of a large ironclad in active service. We only hope that his example may frequently be followed. I. T U R D U S MAGELLANICUS, King; Salv. Ibis, 1875, p. 376. Juan Fernandez, March 1882. A young bird assuming its second plumage, which is perhaps a shade darker than that of adult individuals from the mainland. 2. T U R D U S FLAVIROSTRIS (Sw.) ; Salv. & Godm. Biol. Centr.- Am., Aves, i. p. 21, t. 3. f. 1. Acapulco, Mexico. 3. T R O G L O D Y T E S FURVUS (Gm.). Coquimbo, November 1881. Two specimens resembling other Chilian examples which have been called T. hornensis by Lesson (cf. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 257). 4. A N T H U S CORRENDERA, Vieill.; Scl. Ibis, 1878, p. 362. 5 . Coquimbo. |
