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tinged with brown beneath, the squamate markings on the breast much 

 more distinct, tail feathers (except the middle pair) much blacker, with 

 ochraceous, more restricted, inner web of secondaries decidedly dusky for 

 terminal half, tawny spaces on inner webs of primaries much more sharply 

 defined against much darker color of terminal portion, and the bill shorter 

 and proportionately broader at base." ^ 



Geographical Range. — Southernmost Patagonia, Straits of Magellan. 

 Not recorded by the Princeton party. 



Upucerthia ruficauda (Meyen). 



Ochetorhynchiis ruficatidus Meyen, Nov. Act. Acad. L. C. xvi. Suppl. p. 8i, 



pi. xi (1834) (Maipu, Chili). 

 Up7icerthia niontana d'Orb. and Lafr. Syn. Av. p. 22. 



Description. — Adult male, 156334 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Mendoza, 

 February 1871. Total length, 7.85 inches; wing, 3.20; culmen, .95 ; tail, 

 3.05; tarsus, 1. 00. Above cinnamon, grayer on the head and becoming 

 tawny on the rump and middle tail feathers, others tawny on the outer web 

 and largely black on the inner; wings cinnamon with a wash of tawny; 

 under parts white on the throat and breast, abdomen streaked with cinna- 

 mon, flanks and under tail coverts white, superciliary ear coverts cinna- 

 mon, bill dusky, feet black. 



Geographical Range. — Bolivia, Chili and western Argentina into Pata- 

 gonia. Does not occur in the region covered by the Expedition. 



Genus CINCLODES Gray. 



Type. 



Cinclodes G. R. Gray, List Gen. B. p. 16 (1840) .... C. patagonicus. 



Geographical Range. — South America ; confined to the higher elevations 



of the Andes in their northern range ; descending to sea level in Chili and 



Patagonia. 



Cinclodes fuscus fuscus (Vieillot). 



Anthtts fnsctis Vieillot, Nov. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 490 (181 8), based 

 on "Alondra parda" of Azara (plains of Montevideo and Buenos 

 Aires). 

 Description. — Adult male, P. U. O. C. 7656. Total length, 7.20 inches; 



wing, 4.10; culmen, .65; tail, 3.00; tarsus, 1.05. Above wood brown, 



• From Ridgway's original description, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. xii. p. 134, 1889. 



