Birds of Uruguay . 161 



III. List of Birds, with Field-notes. 



1. TuRDus LEucoMELAs. Dusky Tlirusli. 



I saw one in the quinta at Sta. Elena on the 22ucl October, 

 just after my arrival, and before my luggage, with my 

 • cartridges, had come up the country, but did not meet Avith 

 the adult again in that neighbourhood ; however, on the 

 22nd February, I shot a Thrush in nest-dress in thin monte 

 on the coast of the Monzon, w^hich Mr. Sclater believes to be 

 of this species. In the monte of the Rio Negro I found 

 the Dusky Thrush rather common, but excessively shy and 

 retiring, and very difficult to see — betraying its presence 

 usually only by its low, sweet alarm-note, like that of our 

 Song-Thrush when disturbed among the fruit-trees. They 

 were not at that time (mid-December) in song. 



2. TuRDUs RUFivENTRis. Red-bellicd Thrush. 



I found this fine Thrush common in the monte of the 

 Rio Negro in December. They were usually to be heard 

 singing in the thick growth of raataojo on the river -bank 

 and concealed from view on the land side. At other times 

 they conceal themselves in thicker parts. I noticed one 

 feeding on berries of the moye. The song of this bird is to 

 my miud by far the sweetest of any I heard in South 

 America. It is delivered after the fashion of our Song- 

 Thrush, the notes being less varied than those of that bird, 

 while some of them are even sweeter and richer. I syllabled 

 one to sing — " deur, deur, deur, sweet, sioeet, ut-ich, ut-ich." 

 It was not until March that I met with it in the valley of the 

 Arroyo Grande, where I found one haunting a thicket (close 

 to w'ater) of guayaba and haugapiri. I was attracted by 

 the unmistakable low alarm-note of a Thrush, but the 

 bird was so shy that I could not get a shot at it. A few 

 days after I returned to the spot and secured it — a male, 

 its stomach full of tala berries. A male in spring-dress had 

 the bill yellowish horn ; inside of mouth ochre ; eyelids 

 orange; feet pale brown. 



This bird is known as the " Zorzal,^^ and an Englishman 

 who had been in many parts of the South American con- 



