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10. KERODON KINGII. n. s.

See Bennet ut supra, in Museum of Zool. Soc.

11. CAVIA CUTLERI, n. s. n.o.b.--See Bennet ut supra.

This specimen is in the collection of the Society. It was known in the voyage by the name of the Peruvian cavy: it was presented to one of the officers of the Beagle by an American sailing master, Mr. Cutler, of Stonington, U.S., a very intelligent person, to whom we are much indebted for information. The name which I have proposed for it is in recollection of the benefit we derived from his experience and knowledge of the intricate navigation of the south-western coast of Patagonia, which was freely imparted to us on several occasions.--See Bennet in Proceedings of Zool. Soc. ut supra.

12. DASYPROCTA PATACHONICA.--Desm. E. M. 358.

I regret very much that the only specimen obtained was not preserved.

Desmaret seems to suspect that it differs sufficiently in its dent.i.tion from the agouti to const.i.tute a new genus, for which he has proposed the name _Dolichotis_.--See E. M. 359.

13. DASYPUS MINUTUS.--Desm.

Procured at Port Sta Elena, and corresponds exactly with the description of the above species. It is the Tatou pichiy, or Tatou septieme of D'Azara.

14. AUCHENIA GLAMA.--Desm. E. M. 655.

A living female guanaco was brought home in the Adventure, and placed in the garden of the Zoological Society. The guanaco inhabits Patagonia from Buenos Ayres to the Strait of Magalhaens: we also found it on King Charles Foreland, the eastern island of Tierra del Fuego, and on Navarin Island, at the north side of Na.s.sau Bay, in the vicinity of Cape Horn.

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BIRDS.

1. SARCORAMPHUS GRYPHUS.--Dumeril. The Condor. _Vultur Gryphus._--Lin.

2. CATHARTES IOTA.--Chilian Eagle.

3. POLYBORUS VULGARIS.--_Falco Brasiliensis._ Latham. Caracara Eagle.

Strait of Magalhaens.

4. MILVAGO OCHROCEPHALA.--Spix. Young birds.

Strait of Magalhaens.

5. HALIaeTUS ERYTHRONOTUS.--n.o.b. in Zool. Journal, iii. 424.

_Hal. capite alisque fusco-griseis; dorso scapularibusque rufis, corpore caudaque subtus albis, fasciis fuscis gracilibus leviter notatis, hac fascia lata prope apicem nigra._

The total length of the bird from the _apex_ of the bill to the extremity of the tail is 2 feet; of the bill from the _rictus_ to the _apex_ 2 inches; from the cere 1 inch; of the wing, from the end of the carpal joint to the end of the third quill feather, 18 inches; of the tail 10 inches; of the _tarsus_ three inches.

Strait of Magalhaens.

6. FALCO SPARVERIUS.--Latham.

Strait of Magalhaens.

7. FALCO PEREGRINUS?

Strait of Magalhaens.

8. POLYBORUS BRASILIENSIS.

Polyborus Novae Zealandiae.

Falco Novae Zealandiae of Latham.

9. CIRCUS HISTRIONICUS.--n.o.b. in Zool. Journal, iii. 425.

_Falco histrionicus_, Quoy and Gaimard.

_Circo cineraceus uropygio corporeque subtus albis: hoc fasciis frequentibus rufis notato._

The length from the _apex_ of the bill to that of the tail is 18 {533} inches; bill 1 inch; wing, from the carpal joint to the end of the third quill feather, 13 inches; tail 9 inches; _tarsus_ 2 inches.

Strait of Magalhaens.

10. STRIX RUFIPES.--n.o.b. in Zool. Journ., iii. 426.

_Str. saturate brunnea, albido fulvoque maculata fasciataque femorum tarsorumque plumis rufis._

The total length is 15 inches; that of the bill 1 inch; of the wing, from the _carpus_ to the end of the fourth quill feather, 11 inches; of the tail 7 inches; of the _tarsi_ 2-3/8.

11. STRIX NANA.--n.o.b. in Zoological Journal iii. 427.

_Str. fus...o...b..unnea, fronte nucha alisque albo-notatis, gula alba, cauda fasciis frequentibus rufis notata._

The total length is 5-4/5 inches; of the bill inch; of the wing, from the _carpal_ joint to the extremity of the fourth quill feather, 3 inches; of the tail 2 inches; of the _tarsi_ 7/8.

_N.B._--Three other species of this genus are in the collection which appear to be new.

12. HIRUNDO.--Sp.*

13. HIRUNDO.--Sp.*

14. HIRUNDO.--Sp.*

* Three distinct species of swallow, very much resembling the British species,--_Hir. rustica_, _urbica_, and _riparia_.

Strait of Magalhaens.

15. t.u.r.dUS MAGELLANICUS.--n.o.b. in Proceedings of Zool. Soc.

_t.u.r.d. corpore supra grisescenti olivaceo, subtus pallide rufescenti, capite supra, remigibus, caudaque fusco-atris gula-alba, fusco-atro lineata._

Strait of Magalhaens.