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stretched for miles. At an altitude of 1,900 meters above Potrerillos, 

 Mendoza, several were flushed at swampy spring holes on March 19, 

 1921, and at Tunuyan, Mendoza, on March 25, 26, and 28 the birds 

 were common around the muddy borders of lagoons and cienagas. 

 They gathered in favored spots, and along certain muddy channels 

 it was not unusual to flush a dozen together. The birds fed behind 

 what cover offered, but were not averse to walking in the open, even 

 on bright days, but if startled crouched flat on the mud. Little 

 flocks frequently circled high in passing from one part of the marsh 

 to another. In habit and action they resemble Wilson's snipe and 

 have the same swift, erratic flight. The note with which they rise 

 is harsh, but is flat and not so abrupt or startling as that given by 

 the snipe of North America. A male was shot on March 25. 



Near Holt, in Entre Rios, on October 9, while waiting for a train 

 ferry to cross the Rio Parana, snipe, apparently of this species, 

 were seen in a mating display in which they flew swiftly 12 or 15 

 meters above the ground and suddenly extended the wings stiffly in 

 a V-shaped angle above the back and fell laterally through the air 

 for a considerable distance. 



CAPELLA BRAZILIENSIS (Swainson) 



Scolopax hraziliensis Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., vol. 2, 1832, p. 400. 

 (Equinoctial Brazil.) 



Near the ranch at Kilometer 80, Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, on 

 September 12, 1920, one of these snipe flushed in front of my horse 

 as I rode along the border of an estero. I marked it down and dis- 

 mounted and when it rose again secured it. As I waded in to re- 

 trieve it another flushed and was taken. They were found on float- 

 ing vegetation in a scant growth of rushes where the water was 

 knee-deep. Both were adult females. In Guarani they were known 

 as jacahere. 



From February 7 to 9, 1921, this species was common in the 

 banados between Lazcano and the Rio Cebollati, in eastern Uruguay, 

 where short, marshy vegetation covered a black, mucky soil. Two 

 females were taken on February 7. The birds flush with a low harsh 

 note, flatter in tone and less startling than the explosive call of the 

 Wilson's snipe, dart off across the marsh in swift zigzags for a 

 space, and then start straight away. It appeared that they were 

 slower and heavier than the jacksnipe of North America and were 

 easier to kill. They seem dark in color on the Aving. Adults were 

 in molt at this season and young were fully grown. On a few occa- 

 sions I saw them standing erect or walking about in the grass, but 

 at the slightest alarm they crouched with the head extended on the 

 ground. Other snipe that appeared the same were seen at Rio Negro, 

 Uruguay, on February 16, 17, and 18. 



