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Show 1886.] ON BIRDS FROM TARAPACX, NORTHERN CHILI. 395 EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXV. Fig. 1. Azanus uranus, p. 366. 2. Tarucus extrieatus, p. 366. 3. Spindasis hypargyros, p. 369. 4. Euchlo'e lucilla, p. 376. 5. Pyralis incongrua, p. 383. 6. Samea yerburii, p. 383. 7. Mustilia columharis, p. 387. 8. Argyria cinerea, p. 387. 9. Epifidonia signata, p. 392. 10. Abraxas fuscescens, p. 392. 1J. virginalis, p. 392. 9. List of a Collection of Birds from the Province of Tarapaca, Northern Chili. By P. ~L>. S C L A T E R , M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Received June 25, 1886.] (Plate XXXVI.) Mr. H. Berkeley James, F.Z.S., has placed in my hands for determination a collection of bird-skins made for him by Carlos Rahmer, of the National Museum, Santiago, in the province of Tarapaca, formerly in Peru, but now, I believe, annexed to Chili. The collection, which was made in January and February last, contains 150 skins referable to 53 species, amongst which a new Flamingo, as I shall presently point out, is of special interest. The nearest fauna to Tarapaca that has received much attention is that of the Desert of Atacama just to the south, which was explored in 1853-4 by Dr. R. A. Philippi, of Santiago1. Prof. Philippj's list of birds contains 33 species, only 11 or 12 of which are identical with those in the present collection. But our leading authority on the Birds of Peru, of which Republic the district of Tarapaca until lately formed part, is Taczanowski's 'Ornithologie du Perou/ I have, therefore, referred throughout to this most useful work except in the case of the following seven species, which are not included by Taczanowski, and are therefore additions to his avifauna, namely :-Sycalis aureiventris, Upucer-thia ruficaucla, Synallaxis modesta, Bolborhynchus orbignesius, Phceni-copterus jamesi, Fulica leucoptera, and AZgialitis occidentalis. these seven, one (Bolborhynchus orbiynesius) was hitherto only known from Bolivia ; two, so far as is yet ascertained, are peculiar to Tarapaca (namely Phcenicopterus jamesi and Mgialitis occidentalis), and the remaining four are Chilian species not hitherto recorded so far north. The species in the present collection from Tarapaca which have not yet been met with in Chili are 20 in number, namely : - Turdus 1 ' Reise durch die Wiiste Atacama,' &c. v. Dr. R. A. Philippi: Halle, 1860 26* |