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to Patagonia. I believe it generally is found in pairs ; at least the 

 only two I ever saw alive were together. My men informed me that 

 it is abundant on the Pampas, near the forts of San Raphael and San 

 Carlos, between 33° and 34° south lat.* The young bird presents 

 no difFerence in plumage from the adults, having even the crest well- 

 developed : it seems therefore to form an exception to the generally 

 received rule, that where the parent birds have tlie šame plumage 

 the young is difFerent from either. 



The InHians have a singular method of taking this bird. Having 

 attached a noose to the end of a cane four or five yards long, they 

 walk round and round in gradually contracting circles, until they are 

 near enough to slip the noose over its head, and then, with a sudden 

 jerk, they strangle it. 



Attagis Gayii, GeofF. et Lesson, Cent. Zool. t. 47. 



I believe the Chilian and Bolivian species are identical. I found 

 the bird on the šame day as Tinamolis Pentlandii, inhabiting the 

 margins of frozen brooks near the post-house of Tapaąuilcha. The 

 Indians there knovv it as the Puco-puco, from its call-note. Likę 

 Thinocorus D'Orbignianus, these birds evince great attachment to 

 each other, and call immediately if separated. At that season they 

 ■vvere in pairs and breeding, but I did not obtain the egg. 



Diglossa carbonaria, D'Orb. & De Lafres. 

 Diglossa sittoides, D'Orb. et De Lafr. 



Birds of this genus are found in the temperate region, where the 

 thickets commence, at an altitude of from 8000 to 10,000 feet. I 

 found these species among bushes of Salvia and Eupatorium, on the 

 slopes which fall into the valley of Cochabamba, and most abundantly 

 at a place called Ticąuepaya. They have precisely the habits of 

 flycatchers. D. carboriaria I have watched often, sitting motionless 

 on the highest twig of a bush until he discovered a passing insect, 

 on which he descended, and then returned to bis post. I may men- 

 tion that the vicinity of Cochabamba was the only district in which 

 these t\vo species occurred to me. 



Diglossa mystacalis, De Lafr. ; Diglossa mystacea, G. R. Gray in 



Gen. of Birds, pi. 42. 



Lives entirely in the thickets, hopping from bough to bough, as if 

 in pursuit of insects. I have often seen this species insert its bill 

 into a scarlet and purple flower allied to the Arbutus, but whether 

 for the purpose of capturing insects or of extracting honey I was not 

 able to ascertain. Its habitat is the Yungas of La Paz. 



I believe that the specimen described by M. le Baron De Lafres- 

 naye \vas from my coUection. 



Colaptes rupicola, D'Orb., is a Bolivian species, entirely terrestrial. 

 I found it on the elevated table-land called the Punas, which form 

 the departments of Potosi, Chuąuisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, and 



* The speciraens now in the British Museuin were obtained from this localitv,- 

 as ■nell as those of Rhea Darvinii. ' ■ 



