Ful. capite, coll. superiore, caudâque atris; corpore reliquo atro-fusco, crisso albo.
The length of the body is 15 inches; of the bill 1¼; of the wing, from the carpal joint to the extremity of the second quill feather, 6½; of the tail 3; of the tarsi 2.
45. Fulica gallinuloïdes.—Nob. in Zool. Jour. iv. 96.
Ful. atro-fusca; dorso saturatiore, capite atro, gulâ albo-notatâ crisso albo, rostro angusto, in frontem parum extendente.
46. Chionis alba.—Forster.
Seen at Cape Horn, and at sea, four hundred miles from the nearest land. Captain Foster, of H.M.S. Chanticleer, saw some at South Shetland.
47. Hæmatopus palliatus.—Temminck.
Strait of Magalhaens.
48. Hæmatopus leucopus.—Gam.
Strait of Magalhaens.