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some minutes the mother appeared very ansious to get them out, 

 and made several attempts to reach them from tlie side of the pond 

 \vhere she was standing ; but this she was not able to do, as they 

 were not within her reach. After making several attempts in this 

 manner witliout success, she plunged into the water to them, and 

 began to play \vith one of them for a short time, and put her head 

 close to its ears, as if she \vas making it understand ■vvhat she meant ; 

 the next moment she made a spring out of the pond, vrith. the young 

 one holdiiig on by the fur at the root of the tail -n'ith its teeth ; 

 having safely landed it, she got the other out in tbe šame manner : 

 this she did several times during a ąuarter of an hour, as the young 

 ones kept going into the water as fast as she got them out. Some- 

 times the young held on by the fur at her sides, at others by that at 

 the tail. As soon as there was sufEcient water for her to reach 

 them from the side of the pond, she took hold of them by the ears 

 with her mouth and drew them out of the pond, and led them round 

 the pond close to the fence, and kept chattering to them, as if she 

 was telling them not to go into the pond again. 



2. NoTKs IN ADDiTioN TO FORMER (Zool. Proc. 1843, p. 108, aud 

 1846, p. 9) Papers on South American Ornithology. Bt 

 T. Bridges, Esq., Corr. Memb. 



The beautiful species of Eudromia mentioned in my letter to Mr. 

 Waterhouse (Proc. for 1846, p. 9) proved to be the bird characterized 

 by Mr. Vigors under the name of Tinamotis Pentlandii (Proc. 1836, 

 p. 79). On September 15, 1845, I found three couple in the pass 

 of Tapaquilcha, between the to\vn of Calama and the city of Potosi : 

 they were close to the cnow, at an altitude of about 14,000 feet, vvith 

 the Pepoazte, skulking among the isolated stones \vhich not unfre • 

 quently occur in grassy places in the vtUleys of the main chain of the 

 Andes. When they rise they utter a shriil and loud whistle, and fly 

 a mile perhaps, getting uj) rapidl)' and shooting ofF in a horizontai 

 direction. 



About t\venty miles further on the road I stopped at a post-house, 

 and there the natives brought a fresh-laid egg, which they said was 

 the egg of this species. There could be no doubt about it, as I ■n-as 

 engaged at the time in skinning one of the three specimens \ve had 

 obtained. It was light green, larger than a lap\\ing's, and very ob- 

 tuse at each end. It had none of that polished texture \vhich is so 

 characteristic in the Tinamous. I regret that it \vas accidentally 

 broken. 



Although I sought for this bird in many similar situations through- 

 out Bolivia, I never ngain succeeded in finding it. 



Tinamotis elegans ; Eudromia elegans, D'Orb. & GeofF. Mag. de Zool. 



1832, t. 1. 



I met -tt'ith this species on the eastern side of the Andes — I be- 

 lieve it never occurs on the Chilian side — in the vicinity of the city 

 of Mendoza, in the Argentine Republic. It has an immense range 

 over the grassy plains at the base of the Andes which run southward 



