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on the eastern coast as the region about Cape Fairweather, though the 

 birds were not common here during the month of May, when specimens 

 were secured ; these appear to be all birds of the year. On the western 

 coast the birds range far north but the records of their occurrence on the 

 Atlantic coast are few and indicate a very restricted north and south range 



Fig. 375. Eustephanus galerilus, P. U. O. C. 7986. Outline of tail. Natural size. 



here. There can be no doubt that while the birds are present in the for- 

 ests of the Straits and Tierra del Fuego all the year round, there is a 

 very considerable migration from the region after the breeding season, 

 when the birds are more common than at other times ; this is in December 

 and January. 



Cunningham ^ says of this species at Sholl Bay : "A tiny humming-bird, 

 Trochilus forficahis, made its appearance, flying about over the flowers, 

 and seeming in strange contrast with the gloomy nature of the climate. 

 We often saw specimens of it in the Channels subsequently; and I believe 

 it extends to the southern extremity of Fuegia, while northwards, if I am 

 not mistaken, it ranges as far as Peru — thus passing through every variety 

 of climate, from an intensely humid cold region to a tropical one where 

 rain hardly ever falls." 



A. A. Lane- writes of it: "I did not notice this humming-bird in Cen- 

 tral Chili in December, 1889, but subsequently, on coming to Arauco in 

 the middle of 1890, I found it at first in limited numbers, and afterwards 

 increasing as the winter passed away. Numbers may be seen in the 

 southern forests round fuchsia-bushes when in flower. Occasionally indi- 

 viduals come into the rooms of houses, especially where flowering creep- 

 ers grow round the window." 



'Nat. Hist. Str. Magell. 1871, p. 319. 

 ^Ibis, 1897, pp. 46-47. 



