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slightly grayer on rump and tail ; below pale vinaceous or buffy white, 

 browner on the sides ; feathers of the throat and fore part of neck white 

 tinged strongly with vinaceous at the sides of the neck and all tipped nar- 

 rowly with brown, a white stripe under the ear coverts which are brown 

 streaked with white, and a buffy white superciliary ; a white and tawny spec- 

 ulum on the middle of the wing involving the inner primaries, secondaries 

 with a broad medium blackish band, below which, basally, they are strongly 

 vinaceous ; outer tail feathers darker than the middle pair, the three outer- 

 most with vinaceous tips, involving most of the outer web of the outermost. 



This bird is in worn breeding plumage; another taken June lo in full 

 fresh plumage is much richer in color, almost snuff brown above and vina- 

 ceous below, darker on the breast, becoming almost tawny on the sides 

 of the neck, wing tints all brighter. 



Geographical Range. — From southern Brazil and Chili to southern 

 Patagonia. 



Mr. Hatcher and his assistants met with Cinclodes fusciis at the several 

 points where they explored southern Patagonia and also secured specimens 

 of the bird at the headwaters of the Rio Chico de Santa Cruz in the Pata- 

 gonian Cordillera. The birds were especially common about Punta Arenas 

 in December, the breeding season, and a good series was secured at this 

 point. 



Birds taken at Punta Arenas in worn plumage are much bleached in 

 appearance. This is particularly noticeable in the superciliary stripes, and 

 in the exposed margins of the feathers of the wings ; these have become 

 by wear or exposure or both nearly or quite pure white as compared with 

 the warm cinnamon tint of the eye stripes and exposed borders of the wings 

 in birds of the sam.e kind taken as near by as Rio Gallegos in May. These 

 latter birds are presumably in full winter dress and contrast strongly with 

 birds which have just passed through the breeding season. There is, how- 

 ever, some individual variation in this color, as one bird taken at Punta 

 Arenas on December 1 7 is as brightly cinnamon in tone on the wings as 

 the Rio Gallegos birds taken in May, having just completed the moult. 



Beside the wide variation in color there is a considerable range in size 

 of wing and bill in this series ; the total length obviously is variable, but 

 this factor is so uncertain in skins as not to warrant conclusions. The 

 birds from Rio Gallegos do not reach quite the size of the largest Punta 

 Arenas specimens. A bird taken in the Rio Chico Cordillera on February 



