Zoological Society, 419 



observed to plunge into the water like the old ones. On the 22nd 

 of December the water was let out of the pond for the purpose of 

 cleaning it, which is done once a week : the animals were shut up 

 in their sleeping-den, but they let themselves out when the pond was 

 but half-full of water, and the young ones got into it and were not 

 able to get out without assistance ; after they had been in the water 

 some minutes the mother appeared very anxious to get them out, 

 and made several attempts to reach them from the side of the pond 

 where she was standing ; but this she was not able to do, as they 

 were not within her reach. After making several attempts in this 

 manner without success, she plunged into the water to them, and 

 began to play with one of them for a short time, and put her head 

 close to its ears, as if she was making it understand what she meant ; 

 the next moment she made a spring out of the pond, with the young 

 one holding on by the fur at the root of the tail with its teeth ■, 

 having safely landed it, she got the other out in the same manner ; 

 this she did several times during a quarter of an hour, as the young 

 ones kept going into the water as fast as she got them out. Some- 

 times the young held on by the fur at her sides, at others by that at 

 the tail. As soon as there was sufficient water for her to reach 

 them from the side of the pond, she took hold of them by the ears 

 with her mouth and drew them out of the pond, and led them round 

 the pond close to the fence, and kept chattering to them, as if she 

 was telling them not to go into the pond again. 



2. Notes in addition to former (Zool. Proc. 1843, p. 108, and 

 1846, p. 9) Papers on South American Ornithology. By 

 T. Bridges, Esq., Corr. Memb. 



The beautiful species of Eudromia mentioned in my letter to Mr. 

 Waterhouse (Proc. for 1846, p. 9) proved to be the bird characterized 

 by Mr. Vigors under the name of Tinamotis Pentlandii (Proc. 1836, 

 p. 79). On September 15, 1845, I found three couple in the pass 

 of Tapaquilcha, between the town of Calama and the city of Potosi : 

 they were close to the snow, at an altitude of about 14,000 feet, with 

 the Pepoaza, skulking among the isolated stones which not unfre- 

 quently occur in grassy places in the valleys of the main chain of the 

 Andes. When they rise they utter a shrill and loud whistle, and fly 

 a mile perhaps, getting up rapidly and shooting off in a horizontal 

 direction. 



About twenty miles further on the road I stopped at a post-house, 

 and there the natives brought a fresh-laid egg, which they said was 

 the egg of this species. There could be no doubt about it, as I was 

 engaged at the time in skinning one of the three specimens we had 

 obtained. It was light green, larger than a lapwing's, and very ob- 

 tuse at each end. It had none of that polished texture which is so 

 characteristic in the Tinamous. I regret that it was accidentally 

 broken. 



Although I sought for this bird in many similar situations through- 

 out Bolivia, I never again succeeded in finding it. 



