784 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS I ZOOLOGY. 



Genus AGRIORNIS Gould. 



Type. 



^griornis Gould, Zool. Voy. 'Beagle,' iii. p. 56 (184 1) . . A. livida. 

 Geographical Range. — Andes of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and northern 

 Chili ; descending to sea level in southern and central Chili and in Pata- 

 gonia and Argentina. 



Agriornis livida fortis Berlepsch. 



Agriornis livida fortis Berlepsch, Proc. IV. Intern. Orn. Congr. London, 

 1905, p. 352, 1907 (Chubut Valley). 



Description. — Adult female, P. U. O. C. 7571, Rio Chico, Cordilleras, 

 Patagonia, February 19, 1897. Total length, 11.00 inches; wing, 5.50; 

 culmen, .92; tail, 4.60; tarsus, 1.56. Above grayish brown ("saccardo 

 umber" of Ridgway), feathers of the crown with distinct blackish shaft 

 stripes, those of the back with obscure or obsolete streaks of the same ; 

 wings and tail blackish, wing feathers and outermost rectrices edged 

 with pale brown and the latter tipped with rufescent; under parts ashy 

 on breast, washed with ochraceous, dull white on throat and strongly 

 tawny on the abdomen and under tail coverts ; throat and sides of the 

 face streaked with black shaft stripes and a few obscure streaks on the 

 breast ; legs, feet and upper mandible black, lower mandible mainly pale 

 horn color. 



Geographical Range. — Central and southern Cordillera of Patagonia 

 to Tierra del Fuego. 



The naturalists of the Princeton Expeditions met with Agriornis livida 

 at only one point in southern Patagonia, at the headwaters of the Rio 

 Chico de Santa Cruz, where they found the bird not uncommon in the 

 forests, and secured four specimens in late February and early March, 

 1897. They appear to be immature birds of the year in every case; two 

 of the birds are much lighter than are the others and are changing from 

 the first or nest plumage to the permanent dress of the first season ; they 

 are almost unmoulted below and have a general cinnamon suffusion pre- 

 vailing here, while above they are like immature birds already described. 



A. A. Lane says of it: "I only met with one specimen of this bird 

 when on some open ground near the sea, below the town of Arauco. 

 The ground was covered with sand-dunes and scanty bushes, amongst 

 which the bird was flying. I saw at once it was of a species I had not 



