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table with the sea to the north of it and hills to the east. 

 The plain is overgrown with rufus coarse grass which grows 

 in patches and a great many cows and horses are feeding 

 on it. 



Riding on, some buildings come into view. 



They are those of the Philips Bay station of the Explo- 

 tadores Company who hold the greater part of Chilian 

 fireland. 



Close to the sea is the largest building, the so called 

 grasserie were every year thousands of sheep are slaugh- 

 tered and converted into tallow. 



The manager shows me this ghastly establishment and 

 the only thing which I find at all attractive are the 

 thousands of seabirds that feed on the blood and refuse 

 that has run from the factory into the sea. 



The birds are countless Lams dominicanus^ many An- 

 tarctic Ducks, Haeniatopus leucopus, and little Plovers, 

 and occasional other birds. 



After having seen the birds the manager takes me to 

 his house which is situated about three miles away on 

 the slopes of the hills. 



On our way we pass again great flocks of Cldocphacia 

 disjmr and CM. ruhidiceps. 



The house is beautifully situated in the midst of wild 

 country grand in its monotony. 



Next morning I take a walk into the hills and come 

 into a part where some low bushes grow. Here a little 

 bird flutters helplessly in front of me unable to fly. I run 

 after it and catch it. 



It is a most beautiful yellow grey and black bird with 

 black glittering eyes. As I catch it it utters a low con- 

 tinuous rattling sound. 



It has apparently flown against a telephone wire and 

 hurt its wing. It is a male of Phycjilus? princetonicmus. 

 This beautiful species is a representative of the Lapland 

 Bunting in the southern hemisphere (its shape, its hahits, 

 its style of song, its hindtoe with long nail all point to 

 this) and not a Phnjgilus at all as it is usually called. 



Notes from the Leyden IVIuseum, Vol. XXXV. 



