Birds of Central Faiayonia. 393 



Phrygilus CANicEPsf, Burm. 



I believe this is only a spring visitor to tlie Chupat valley ; 

 and it is not common. 



Iris light rufous ; upper mandible dark horn-colour ; under 

 one pale horn-colour^ tip darker ; legs rufous brown^ feet and 

 claws black. Not seen during our journey to the lakes. 



Phrygilus fruticeti. 



Common at Chupat throughout the spring and summer, 

 and often seen during our journey in the valleys ; it never 

 wanders far from water. On the 20th September I took a 

 nest on the hills near the colony : it was a very neat struc- 

 ture of wool_, feathers, and the flowers of a grass, and placed 

 in the centre of a thick bush, about a foot above the ground. 

 It contained two eggs, of a pale green ground-colour, thickly 

 marked Avith dull chocolate spots and streaks. 



Iris wood-brown ; beak dark flesh-colour, tip of both man- 

 dibles and the whole of the upper mandible darkest ; legs and 

 feet reddish flesh-colour. 



*ZoNOTRICHIA CANICAPILLA. 



Resident and abundant everywhere. It has a pretty little 

 warble, which it sings in the evening and during the night 

 when the moon is shining ; and often whilst lying awake under 

 my " Yergas " and Guanaco robe, this Sparrow kept up its 

 song within a few yards of my head. 



Iris wood-brown ; legs light horn-colour ; feet darker, claws 

 black. 



Zonotrichia pileata does not occur in Patagonia. 



DiUCA MINOR. 



I shot one at Tombo Point on the 31st December, 1877, 

 and have never seen another. 



t [Mr. Duraford has marked his two specimens " P. caniceps, Burm." 

 {Phrygilus caniceps, Burm., J. f. O. 18G0, p. 158, and ' La Plata-Reise,' ii. 

 p. 487), having, we presume, compared them with specimens so named by 

 Prof. Bm-meister. We should have expected them to have belonged to 

 the species determined by us to be Chlorospiza aldwiati, Gay (Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 285) ; but such is not the case, the breast of Mr. Durnford's bird being 

 of a much deeper orange tint, besides other differences. A revision of this 

 section of Phnjyilus is necessary when sufficient materials come to hand. 

 — Edd.] 



