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FULICA LEUCOPTERA.
P l a t e L X .
FULICA LFUCOPTFRA.
(STEICKLAND'S COOT).
Focha
Fulica leucoptera
Fu lica stricklandi
Fulica c
Aza ra , Apunfc. iii. p. 472, No. 447.
Vieill. N . D . xii. p. 4 8 ; e t Enc, M é tîi. p . 3-43.
H a r tl, In d . Az. p. 28.
Scl. e t S a k , P.Z.S. 18G8, p . 468.
B urm . L a -P lata -Ee ise , iii. p. 505.
Hai-tlaub, J o um . f. O rn . 1853, E s tr a b . p. 86.
L an d b e ck , Wiegm. A rch . 1862, p . 218.
Ob scu rè ardesiaca, c ap ite u n d iq u e n ig ric an te : crisso albo, p lumis quibusdam medialibus n ig ris : fie su râ alari e t
remigis e s te rn i margine an g u sto ue cn o u se co ndariorum q u orumdam apicibus a lb is : ro s tro flavo, clypeo f ro n ta li minore,
su p ra ro tu n d a to , au ran tia co ; p edibus olivaceis i long, to ta 1 5 '0, alæ 7'8, caudæ 2 '3 , r o s tr i a r ic tu 1-25, ta rs i 2-4, dig.
med. c. u n g u e 3'5.
H a i. in Paa-aguayá e t rep. A rg e n tin a (Azara) : rep. U ru g u a y en s i (Sellow) : P a ran á (B w m eU te r ) : B o lm à in t.
(B eh n ) : Ch ü iá (Landbeck).
"We think there can he no doubt that this species of Coot, which was first coiTectly described
b y Dr. Hartlaub in 1853, and proposed to be called F. striclclandi, is the same as that termed
by Azara in 1852 “ L aF o ch a f upon which Vieillot established his F. leucoptera. W e have,
therefore, followed Burmeister in using the latter name, and trust that our excellent friend Dr.
Hartlaub will excuse us for doing so.
Azara obtained specimens o f this bird in Paraguay and in the vicinity o f Buenos Ayres.
Bui-meister met with it on the lagoons near Parana in the Argentine Republic. Sellow
transmitted examples to the Berlin Museum from the vicinity o f Santa Lucia in the republic of
Uruguay. Professor Behn o f Kiel, as we are infonned by Dr. Hartlaub, shot a specimen o f it
in the month o f June on a pool near San Miguel in the Bolivian Province o f Chiquitos. It
would thus appear that this species has a considerable range over the southern portion o f Soutli
America on this side o f the Andes. AVestward o f the great mountain-chain it is one o f the
thi-ee Chilian species concerning which Herr Landbeck has lately .given us so many interesting
details, but we do not know how far it ranges to the south upon this coast.
Fulica leucoptera is easily distinguishable from all its South American congeners by having
the ends o f the first five or six secondaries next adjoining the primaries tipped with white,
resembling in this particular the northern F. americana. The white margin to the outer