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hurried, zigzag motion ; then slowly circling downwards, to sit with tail 

 outspread and the broad glistening white wings expanded, or languidly 

 waved up and down like the wings of some great butterfly an object 

 beautiful to see. 



When I first heard this bird sing I felt convinced that no other 

 feathered songster on the globe could compare with it ; for besides the 

 faculty of reproducing the songs of other species, which it possesses in 

 common with the Virginian Mockiug-bird, it has a song of its own, 

 which I believed matchless ; and in this belief I was confirmed when, 

 shortly after hearing it, I visited England, and found of how much less 

 account than this Patagonian bird, which no poet has ever praised, were 

 the sweetest of the famed melodists of the Old World. 



Fam. II. CINCLIDJE, OR DIPPERS. 



The Dippers, constituting the genus Cinclus and the family Cinclidae, 

 are sparingly distributed, principally in the Alpine Regions which 

 contain clear and perennial streams, throughout the Palaearctic and 

 Nearctic Regions. In the Neotropical Region they are represented by 

 three species, one of which is found in the northern provinces of the 

 Argentine Republic. 



9. CINCLUS SCHULZI, Cab. 

 (SCHULZ'S DIPPER.) 



[PLATE II.] 

 Cinclus schulzi, Cab. J.f. 0. 1883, p. 102, t. ii. fig. 3. 



Description. Dark grey ; throat pale rufous ; a broad bar on the inner webs 

 of the wing-feathers white : total length 5'5 inches, wing 3'0, tail 1'6. 



Hab. Northern Argentina. 



A recent discovery of Herr Fritsch Schulz, who obtained specimens 

 of it on the Cerro Vayo of Tucuman, where this species, like others of 

 the genus, frequents the mountain-streams. 



