AVES TYRANNID^. 783 



Specimens were obtained by the Princeton expedition at Punta Arenas, 

 in December and January, and on the Pacific slope of the Cordillera near 

 head of Rio Chico in March. One male, December 24, is in full moult. 



A. A. Lane writes of this bird as follows: "This species is very char- 

 acteristic of the forests of southern Chili. I did not hear of any reliable 

 local name for it, but the German colonists call it, very correctly, the 

 ' Baumlaufer ' (= Tree-creeper). The sexes appear to resemble each other. 



"I do not know how far north these birds extend, but I think there 

 would not be many north of Arauco, where I first observed them in the 

 forest districts. 



"I found them as far south as I went, apparently resident and in fair 

 numbers. They do not appear to go far from the forest, and are usually 

 found in it. Their habits, as regards feeding and movements, are the 

 same as those of Woodpeckers and Tree-creepers, to which they are sim- 

 ilar in appearance. They usually creep about the tops of high forest 

 trees, and now and then come lower down, and at times I have seen one 

 descend to examine logs on the ground. 



"They peck with considerable force, like a Woodpecker, and seem 

 more closely related to the Tree-creepers than to the other Dendrocolap- 

 tidae which I observed, and from which they differ considerably both in 

 appearance and habits. 



"The note is a loud and somewhat sharp chirruping, and is frequently 

 uttered; it generally betrays the presence of the bird." (Birds of Chili, 

 Ibis, pp. 39-40, 1897.) 



Peters found them not uncommon on wooded slopes about Lake Nahuel 

 Huapi where in late summer or early autumn they occur in small com- 

 panies. He describes the note as a "faint Hckr (Bull. M. C. Z. Ixv. no. 

 9. P- 318.) 



Division OLIGOMYOD^, 



Cf. Sclater, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. i (1888); Sharpe, Hand-List 

 Bds. iii. p. 88 (1901). 



Family Tyrannid^. 



Sclater, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 2 (1888); Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. 

 iii. p. 88 (1901). 



