1919] ^^" ^''"' OrnUkuloijii uf Cape Sun Antonio. 49o 



Mr. Gurney writes to me that occasionally, when brought 

 up by the wind, the Graiinet has been extraordinarily plentiful 

 on the coast of Portugal and off the south of Spain (where, 

 by the way, 1 have often noticed it myself in winter), and 

 further notes that it seems uncertain where the southern 

 range of S. bassana meets the northern range of S. capensis. 

 Details and maps are given in Mr. Gurney's ' Life of the 

 Gannet.^ Curiously enough the most southern gannetry 

 in Europe is the Bull Rock, Co. Cork, while the most 

 southern breeding places known are on Bonaventura and 

 Bird Rocks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 



[To be continued.] 



XXV. — Further Oriiitholoyicul Notes from the Neighbour- 

 hood of Cape San Antonio^ Province of Buenos Ayres. 

 PartIL 'riiocHiLiD.E — Plataleide. By Ernest Gibson, 

 M.B.O.U., F.Z.S.^ 



238. Chrysuvonia ruficollis Vieill. Golden-tailed Hum- 

 ming-bird. 



Mr. Hudson, in his brief notice of this species, states 

 that it visits the more northern portion of the Argentine 

 Republic; but he himself obtained specimens at Conchitas 

 (near Bueuos Ayres), and Durnford did the same at Punta 

 Lara, farther south. 



It has been left to Mr. Claude Grant to chronicle the 

 Golden-tailed Humming-bird as a winter visitor to the 

 Ajo district ; for I had attributed the appearance of a 

 Humming-bird during that season to a stray individual 

 of our regular summer species [Chtorostilbon splendidus 

 Vieill.) — most likely the young, from the darker plumage. 

 Miss Runnacles, it should be noted, " observed it in every 

 month throughout the winter of 1909.^' Picking out what 

 I formerly took to be these aberrant occurrences of C. splen- 

 didus in my diary, I come to the conclusion tiiat che 

 Golden-tailed species arrives about the middle of April 



• Couthuied from ' Ibis,' 1918, p. 415. 



