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Mr. A. H. Holland on some Birds 



III. — Further Notes on the Birds of the Argentine Republic. 

 By A. H. Holland. TFith Remarks by P. L. Sclater^. 



[Mr. Holland has now sent home a second collection of 

 nicely-prepared bird-skins from Argentina. It contains 

 about 60 specimens^ referable to 46 species, all from the 

 Estancia Espartillar, near Ranchos, on the Southern Rail- 

 way of Buenos Ayres. I give some of Mr. Holland's 

 interesting field-notes on these birds, and insert a few 

 remarks of my own, to which my initials are appended. 



The following is a list of the species of which there are 

 examples in the present collection : — 



1. Polioptila diiniicola. 

 *2. Taclij'cineta mej^eni. 



3. Progne cbalybea. 

 *4. Procnias tersa. 

 *o. Tanagra bonariensis. 



6. Paroaria cucullata. 



7. Zonotrichia pileata. 



8. Chiysomitris icterica. 



9. Sycalis pelzelui. 



10. luteola. 



11. Agelaeus tliilius. 



12. Leistes superciliaris, 



13. AnilDlyrhamphus holosericeus. 



14. Pseudoleistes virescens. 

 *15. Tsenioptera coronata, 



16. dominicana. 



17. Alectriiras risorius. 



18. Lichenops perspioillatus. 



19. Maclietornis rixosa. 

 *20. Centrites uiger. 

 *21. Serpliophaga subcristata. 



22. nigricans. 



23. Elainea albiceps. 



P. L. S.] 

 2. Tachycineta meyeni. 



[Petrochelidon meyeni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 48. 

 Tachycineta meyeni, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, x. p. 116; Sharpe 

 & Wyatt, Monogr. Hirund. pis. ix., x. 



To my great surprise, a single skin of a Swallow sent by 

 * For an account of the first collection see ' Ibis,' 1890, p. 424. 



24. Pyrocepbalus rubineus. 

 *25. Empidonax bimaculatus, 



26. Geositta cunicularia. 



27. Cinclodes fuscus. 



28. Phlaeocryptes melanops. 



29. Ohrysuronia ruficoUis. 



30. Conurus patagonus. 

 *31, Circus cinereus. 

 *32. Falco peregrinus, 



33, Ardea candidissima. 

 *34. Ileterouetta melanocephala. 



35. Mareca.sibilatrix. 



36. Columbula picui, 



37. Oreophilus ruficoUis, 

 *38. Eudromias modesta. 

 *39. ^gialitis falklandica. 

 *40, Thinocorus rumicivorus. 



41, Gallinago paraguaiae, 

 *42, Rhynchfea semicoUaris, 

 *43. Tringa maculata, 



*44, fuscicoUis. 



*45. Rhyacopliilus solitarius, 



46. Podiceps roUandi, 



