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Coppinger found it at Cockle Cove, Straits of Magellan, October 1879, 

 and says: "The handsomest bird in this region is the kingfisher [Ceryle 

 stellata). It is commonly to be seen perched on some withered branches 

 overhanging the water, where it will remain in a huddled-up sleeping at- 

 titude, its head turned sideways, but with an eye all the time fixed intently 

 on the water beneath, until it espies a fish, when it drops like a stone, 

 cleaving the water with a short sharp splash, and a moment afterwards 

 emerges with an upward impulse, which raises it clear of the water, and 

 enables it to fly away at once without any preliminary shaking or flutter- 

 ing. It is an exceedingly unsuspicious and fearless bird, and when perched 

 on its place of observation, will often allow one in a boat to approach 

 within arm's reach of it. Mossy banks overhanging low sea cliffs are its 

 usual nesting places, and there it excavates a tunnel through the soft moss 

 and turfy soil, and at a distance of more than two feet from the aperture 

 forms its nest." (Cruise, Alert, 1883, pp. 107-108.) 



Suborder CAPRIMULGI. 



Sharpe, Classif Bds. p. 81 (1891); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. ii. p. 78 (1900). 



Family Caprimulgid^. 



Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 623 (1892); Hartert, Tierr. Lief. i. 

 Aves (1897); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. ii. p. 78 (1900). 



Subfamily CaprimulgintE. 



Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 519 (1892); id. Tierr. Lief i. Aves 

 (1897); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. ii. p. 79 (1900). 



Genus STENOPSIS Cassin. 



Type. 

 Stenopsis Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. v. p. 179 



(1851) S. cayennensis 



Geographical Range. — South America, from central Patagonia, Province 

 of Chubut, north to the Isthmus of Panama. 



Stenopsis longirostris (Bonaparte). 



Caprinmlgns lo7igiyostris Bonap. Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philada. iv. p. 384, 

 1825 (Brazil). 



