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Asia. Chelonarium and Atractocerus fly about in 

 the evening, and are attracted by a light. The 

 Brazilian jumping beetles differ, almost all of 

 them, in their form, from those of Europe. Among 

 the Heteromerides, in the neighbourhood of Rio 

 Janeiro, owing to the dampness of the soil, no 

 unwii\ged beetle is to be met with ; a few varieties 

 of the species Scotinus have been found upon the 

 Organ mountains only. 



Owing to the excessive roughness of the weather, 

 our passage from Rio Janeiro to the Bay of Con- 

 ception afforded us but few opportunities to add 

 to our collections. A snipe blown out to sea from 

 the Rio de la Plata, a specimen of Diomedea 

 Albatros at Terra del Fuego, a large Salpa, and a 

 LepaSy were all we were able to obtain. The Bay 

 of Conception presents a rich field to the ornitho- 

 logist. A kind of parrot, with a long tail, and 

 naked round the eyes, flies about in swarms; and a 

 smaller kind from the interior, is to be found tame 

 in the houses ; our guns frequently brought down 

 two small kinds of doves. Of Ambulatores we met 

 some, of the genera Cassicus^ Motacilla^ Muscicapa, 

 Pyrgita, Saxicola, Cotile ; of birds of prey, Percnop- 

 terus J Ota MoL, and two buzzards ; of Grallafores, 

 two kinds of Hcematopus, both with white legs, 

 the one with a black body, as H. niger is de- 

 scribed by Quoy and Gaimard, the other more 

 similar to the European ; a Vanellus with spurs 



