BIRDS. yi 



1. ZoNOTRicHiA MATUTiNA. G. R. Gray. 



Fringilla matutina, Lidtt , Cat. 25. 



■ Kittl. Kupfertafeln der Togel, pi. 23. f. 3. 



Tanagra ruficollis, Spix^ Av. Sp. Nov. ii. t. liii, f. 3. p. 39. 

 Chingolo, Azara, No. 135. Chingolo Bunting, Lath. Hist. 



I procured specimens of this species from the banks of the Plata, Bahia 

 Blanca in Northern Patagonia, and from Valparaiso in Chile : in these countries it 

 is perhaps the commonest bird. In the Cordillera, I have seen it at an elevation of 

 at least 8000 feet. It generally prefers inhabited places, but it has not attained 

 the air of domestication of the English sparrow, which bird in habits and general 

 appearance it represents. It does not go in flpcks, although several may be fre- 

 quently seen feeding together. At Monte Video I found on the ground the nest 

 of this species. It contained three eggs; these were .75 of an inch in length; 

 form, rather rounded ; colour, dirty white, with numerous small spots of chesnut 

 and blackish brown, almost confluent towards the broadest end. It was in this 

 nest that I found the parasitic egg, supposed to belong to a species of Molothrus, 

 described in my journal.* 



2. ZONOTRICHIA CANICAPILLA. GoilUl. 



Z. vert ice cinereo ; loris rcgioiieque paroticd obscure fuscis: dorso colUque later ibiis rufis, 

 dorso siiperiori et nropygio fuscis ; dorso medio nigrescenti fusco, plumis singulis pal- 

 lido fusco marginatis ; teclricibus alarum nigrescenti fuscis, rufescente fusco margin- 

 atis, apice albis, duasfascias obliquas trans alarum for mantibus. 



Long. tot. 5| unc. ; alw, 2g ; caudcr, 2}^; tarsi, | ; rostri, J. 



Crown of the head grey ; lores and ear-coverts dark brown ; back and sides of 

 the neck rufous ; upper part of the back and rump brown ; centre of the back 

 blackish brown, each feather margined with light brown ; wing-coverts 

 blackish brown, margined with reddish brown, and tipped with white, forming 

 two oblique bands across the wing ; primaries, secondaries, and tail, dark 

 brown, margined with greyish brown ; throat and all the under surface 

 brownish grey ; and feet brown. 



Habitat, Port Desire in Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego. 



This species is not uncommon in Tierra del Fuego, wherever there is any open 



* Journal of Researches during tlie Voyage of the Beagle, p. CO. 



