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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



A. A. Lane writes of its habits in Chili as follows : " This little bird 

 appears to have a wide range, but to be a migratory species. It is, I think, 

 entirely arboreal, but is found in every part of Chili that I visited, fre- 

 quenting forests, gardens, and bushes or shrubs of any sort. It is gener- 

 ally known as the ' Vio,' on account of its whistle or call-note, which is 

 very characteristic. About Hospital it was called ' Chiflador,' which might 

 either mean whistler or cutter, the former from its note, or the latter from its 



Fig. 395. Elcenea albiceps. cf 7529. About three quarters natural size. 



destructive habits in gardens, where it picks off the buds of fruit-trees, 

 though whether it does so in search of insects I cannot say. I observed 

 a number in the gardens at Pica about the commencement of March, but 

 later on I could not find one there. I did not see any whilst in Arauco 

 during the cold season, but later on they appeared at Corral about the 

 beginning of November (1890). 



" At first, after making their appearance at Corral, the birds kept very 

 quiet and well out of sight in the bushes, but soon they appeared to have 

 got over the effects of their journey and made themselves heard all through 

 the forest. They appear to range a good way south, and are found on 



