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was oa the 17th November, and two days after I found 

 eight in a little potrero close to the house in which there 

 was a quantity of cardoon. They prefer the drier parts of 

 the camp, but like a place where there is a quantity of 

 cardoon or scattered tufts of low paja among which they 

 can run and obtain shelter. I observed a good many near 

 Porongos in December, and early one morning saw one 

 perch on a fence-post. They run very fast, and although 

 in November and December I found them fairly tame and 

 difficult to flush by a man on horseback, even when pressed 

 within a yard or two's distance, by the middle of January 

 they had grown both wild and fat. When not much alarmed 

 they ma}- be seen nodding their heads and swaying their 

 rather long tails up and down after the manner of a Common 

 Sandpiper, but in a much more slow and leisurely fashion. 

 In flight the long wings are raised rather high above the 

 line of body. The note is somewhat mellow, sounding like 

 " ivMt-e-ivit ," and is uttered on rising and in flight. On the 

 23rd February I made a note to the effect that there were 

 some " Chorlitos " still here, but that they were wild. For 

 the last fortnight I had heard them flying over singly, by day 

 and by night, passing north. On 3rd March I noted that 

 there were still some, but only a few. This bird is known as 

 " Chorlito,"" and it has indeed a great resemblance to Plovers 

 in its habits. I usually met with it in small parties, though 

 they often rose singly and went off in different directions. 



' ^NuMENius BoiiEALis. Esquimo Curlew. 

 One in the Museum. 



128. Sterna hirundinacea. Gassings Tern. 



I saw a Tern off the coast of the Banda Oriental on the 

 afternoon of 1st October which was, I am jaretty sure, of this 

 species. On 10th June, when off the coast, I observed a small 

 flock of the same. This was in the forenoon ; at noon we 

 were 113 knots distant from Montevideo. 



129. Larus dominicanus. Dominican Gull. 



There were many in Montevideo Bay on the 2nd October 

 and on subsequent occasions, both adult and young. The 



