8l2 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Hudson says of this bird — the CJihigolo grande of the residents of 

 Argentina: "Seen amidst the dull-plumaged tribes that people the grey- 

 thickets of Patagonia, the rufous throat and bosom of the male give it 

 almost a gay appearance. In its habits it very closely resembles the 

 Tanagya striata. Like that bird it builds a round and shallow nest in a 

 close bush, and lays four eggs. It goes singly or in small flocks, sits on 

 the top of a bush, and hides when approached, feeds on fruit and seeds; 

 the flight is a series of sudden, short undulations, the wings producing a 

 loud humming sound. The notes of the male are remarkable, and resem- 

 ble, when the bird sings or utters its alarm on the nest being approached, 

 the feeble bleating of a kid or lamb. This peculiar intonation is also pos- 

 sessed by the Tanagra striata in its song. This bird is quite common in 

 the thickets bordering on the river." (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 537.) 



Neither of the Phytotomas reach the region explored by the Princeton 

 expedition. 



Phytotoma rara Molina. 



Phytotoma rara Molina, Saggio Stor. Nat. Chili, p. 345 (1782) (Chili). 



Description. — Adult male, A. N. S. Phila. 51534, Chili, E. Reed. 

 Total length, 7.00 inches; wing, 3.55; culmen, .50; tail, 2.98; tarsus, i.oo. 

 Above slaty gray with broad black centers to the feathers ; crown mahog- 

 any red, sides of face black with whitish superciliaries beginning above the 

 eye and a white spot below the ear coverts ; wings black with two prom- 

 inent white wing bars, and narrow white edgings about the middle of some 

 of the primaries ; tail blackish with a broad band of mahogany red across 

 the inner webs of all but the central pair, tips dull gray, entire under parts 

 pale chestnut or orange rufous, darkest on the breast ; feet and bill blackish. 



Female olive gray above with broad black centers to all the feathers, 

 including the crown ; wings with dull buff edgings beneath, buff with nar- 

 row black median streaks to the feathers, except on the throat and middle 

 of the abdomen; tail as in the male. 



Geographical Range. — Chili and across the Andes to Bariloche at Lake 

 Nahuel Huapi (Peters). 



B. PASSERES NORMALES. 



Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 3 (1877) ; Sharpe, Hand-List Bds. iii. 

 p. 187 (1901). 



