280 Memories of a Trip in Argentina. 



one saw crested Ijirds, like Larks, and twice I saw what 

 I think was a Flycatcher, a most beautiiul bird with a hriyiit 

 grey back and a lovely crimson breast; its loi-al nuinc is 

 " blood- of- m-ox." There is also a bird with a long- tail, 

 similar in its habits to our Magpie, and a pair fly al)out with 

 nearly always five young ones with them, and I lielieve are 

 called the "Seven Sisters." I have omitted to mention the 

 Plover, there are many of them flying gracefully about. 



Then I moved to another place, still up North, called 

 Vera, this is all forest country, and I saw beaut i fid ^Vood- 

 peckers, lots of Red-crested (Paroaria cucullala) and Green 

 Cardinals (Gichernafrix crisiata). I never saw many red in 

 either place. The small birds were more difficult to see as one 

 rode along. 



T wanted to take some birds to England, and in a small 

 town 1 saw two Thrushes in a large cage, one in poor health 

 (I think they were fed on bread and milk), and a pair of 

 Brown, Black, and White Grosbeaks, size of a Canary; and two 

 hen Yellow Siskins, the latter four birds in excellent condi- 

 tion; I put the four seed-eaters with two cock Siskins (the 

 adult) thalt I bought in a small canary cage; the two Thrushes 

 I put in an old cage, open and quite small, with two perches. 

 I fed them on eggs and sweet biscuit, and when I arri ^ed 

 back in B.A., I bought some dog biscuit and mixed that with 

 egg; they recovered their health, on this mixture, and fruit, and 

 soon began to record their song. I learn from a friend 

 in B.A. that the Thrush with the whitey breast was called 

 a "Sorcal" and that they are excellent singers. I made out one 

 was the White -bellied Thi'ush {Tiird'is aJhiventris) and the other 

 the Ruddy Thrush (T. ru/irenfris). 



At Santos on the way back I Iwught some Sugar - 

 birds, and Tanagers that did very well, tnit I regret that 

 four out of the six died, of fits, seven months later, when in 

 apparenll}'' good condition. I think the cau ;e wa-; over-eating. 



Alas! The Thruslu^s got Inirnt with my aviary! ! 

 The "Sorcal" turned out a beautiful singer. The people' 

 out there have no idea how to feed soft-bills, and though one 

 wants, one cannot bring or obtain the co?oons. This June I 

 received six beautiful Yellow and Black Hawflnche-, from the 

 Cordoba Hills, and I am glad to say, five are alive (2 p' and 



