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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



lers that little can be added ; Darwin's remarks on the Patagonian Parrot 

 as he met with it are appended, as well as the more recent discussion of 

 the birds by White. 



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Fig. 369. Cyanoliseus palagonus. About one-third natural size. 



Darwin, in Gould's Voyage of Beagle (Birds, p. 113, 1841), says: "I 

 obtained specimens of this bird at Bahia Blanca in northern Patagonia, 

 where there is not a single tree and the country is dry and sterile. I 

 did not meet with this species in the southern parts of Patagonia, but it 

 is common near Concepcion in Chili, in nearly the same latitude. They 

 build their nests in holes in cliffs of earth or gravel, together with the 

 Hirundo cyanolenca. In September at Bahia Blanca, they were laying : 

 their eggs are quite white, and small in proportion to the bird. Several 

 usually rush forth from their holes at the same instant, and utter a noisy 

 scream." 



E. W. White ^ says of this species : " At Guazan [Argentina] this parrot is 



»P. Z. S, p. 620, 1882. 



