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Come back to the house my kind host got me a small 

 cage to put the bird in. 



The poor little thing was very thin and feeble and the 

 first thing it did after having drunk was to have a sound 

 sleep. After that it began to feed on canaryseed, and I 

 ultimately succeeded in bringing the little bird home in 

 good health. 



During the seapassage later on, this little bird which 

 was quite tame came into full song as the weather got 

 warmer. It is a charming song in style much like the 

 continuous song of the Lapland Bunting and very sweet. 



Every morning on the ship it began to sing as soon as 

 the light came. 



After my host had helped me with the little bird he 

 told me that he had another surprise for me in the shape 

 of a living specimen of Attagis malouinus which had also 

 damaged its wing against a telephonewire near the house. 

 The bird was produced and I now could admire a living 

 example of this curious grouse like bird in close proximity. 

 Unfortunately the wing was so much broken and damaged 

 that I could not venture to add this bird to my travel- 

 ling menagerie and so it was decided to put the poor 

 thing out of its misery. 



My host told me that this bird breeds inland in desolate 

 wild country and lays four eggs only. 



In the great plain mentioned before, which I passed to 

 go to Philips Bay, are still some Guanacos^ which live 

 peacefully with the cattle. The animals themselves are not 

 killed but all the young ones that are born are at once 

 killed for the sake of their skins. 



Besides, in snowy winters many die of starvation in all 

 the sheep districts. 



Before the sheep were so numerous the Guanacos could 

 live on the long grass which came out of the snow, but 

 since all the long grass is eaten by the sheep there is 

 nothing for the poor things to live on if the snow lies 

 thick for any length of time. 



This and the destroying of the young ones must very 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXV. 



