946 



TAPACULO 



a pleasing song, and build a shallow nest, in which the eggs, generally 

 three in number and of a greenish -blue marked with broAvn and 

 purple, are laid. 



The figures here given will shew the varied proportion of the 

 bill in some of the genera of this Family, and as a whole the 

 Tanagriclx may perhaps be considered to hold the same relation to 

 the Fringillidx as the Ideridm do to the Sturnidx (Starling), and the 

 Mn'wtiltidx to the Sj/lviidx (Warbler) or Turdidm (Thrush), in 

 each case the purely New- World Family being the " feebler " type. 



TAPACULO, the name^ given in Chili to a bird of singular 



Tapaculo. 



appearance, — the Pteroptochus cdbicollis of ornithology, — and in this 

 work (p. 324 and Introduction) applied in an extended sense to 



^ Of Spanish origin, it is intended as a reproof to the bird for the shameless 

 way iu which, by erecting its tail, it exposes its hinder parts. It has been some- 

 times misspelt "Tapacolo," as by Mr. Darwin, who gave (Jo;«-;i. lies. chap. xii. ) 

 a short but entertaining account of the habits of this bird and its relative 

 Ilyladcs mcycqwdius, called liy the Chilenos "El Turco,'" while Mr. Hudson 

 {Argent. Orn. i. p. 206) has briefly described those of the Patagouian " Gallito" 

 (Little Cock), Rhinocrypta lanccolata. 



