946 TAPACULO 
a pleasing song, and build a shallow nest, in which the eggs, generally 
three in number and of a greenish-blue marked with brown and 
purple, are laid. 
The figures here given will shew the varied proportion of the 
bill in some of the genera of this Family, and as a whole the 
Tanagride may perhaps be considered to hold the same relation to 
the Fringillidx as the Icteridzx do to the Sturnide (STARLING), and the 
Mniotiltide to the Sylviide (WARBLER) or Turdide (THRUSH), in 
each case the purely New-World Family being the “feebler” type. 
TAPACULO, the name! given in Chili to a bird of singular 
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TAPACULO. 
appearance,—the Pteroptochus albicollis of ornithology,—and_ in this 
work (p. 324 and INTRODUCTION) applied in an extended sense to 
1 Of Spanish origin, it is intended as a reproof to the bird for the shameless 
way in which, by erecting its tail, it exposes its hinder parts. It has been some- 
times misspelt ‘‘Tapacolo,” as by Mr. Darwin, who gave (Journ. Res. chap. xii.) 
a short but entertaining account of the habits of this bird and its relative 
Iylactes megapodius, called by the Chilenos ‘‘ £2 Turco,” while Mr. Hudson 
(Argent. Orn. i. p. 206) has briefly described those of the Patagonian ‘‘ Gallito” 
(Little Cock), Rhinocrypta lanceolata, 
