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of two mounted peons and some dogs, which are driven 

 to Philips Bay. A little further I pass another small stream 

 and see a specimen of DafiJa spinicanda sitting on one of 

 its borders. The bird squats motionless and lets me pass 

 hoping to be unobserved. I don't undeceive it and let 

 it be. 



Another turn between some hills and the Jente Grande 

 farm (Esfancia Sarita) is in front of me and is reached by 

 us in a few minutes. 



I alight near the managers house and my horse wet as 

 it is from the exertions of a longish ride is simply fastened 

 to a pole in a driving wind. 



I get some lunch in the house and after that am taken 

 to a small stream in a hollow, where ducks usually abound. 



I am in luck, the ducks are there and swimming un- 

 concernedly in a small pool, I admire Mareca chiloënsis, 

 NeiHon favirosfris, Net. versicolor, Spatula platalea, which 

 had not yet been recorded from Tierra del Fuego, and 

 Dafila spinicauda. 



The only birds to take wing at our approach are Mareca 

 chiloënsis, the others are quite tame and take no notice, 

 no more than my own ducks of these species at home. 



The manager tells me that the birds are not allowed to 

 be disturbed and are so tame accordingly. 



After the ducks a few tame Indians who serve as peons 

 are shown to me and I am sorry to hear that these poor 

 creatures don't stand civilised life even in a low stage. 



The clothes and the houses give them consumption, the 

 children die first, then the men follow and the women 

 make the end. 



At about half past one we mount our horses again to 

 proceed to Philips Baij. 



The country to the East of Estancia Sarita was quite 

 flat at first. In little pools I see more Nettion versicolor 

 and flavirostris and some Coots, and in the grass countless 

 flocks of CM. disjjar. 



We pass over some beautiful wild hilly country and 

 then in front of us lies a big plain as flat as a billiard- 



]Votes from the Leydcn IMuseuna, Vol. XXXV. 



