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Hab. America, descending southwards during migration to Patagonia. 



Wilson's Phalarope is a North- American species, which breeds in the 

 north-west of that continent, and descends as far south as Chili and 

 Patagonia during migration. 



WILSON'S PHALAROPE. 

 (Seebohm's 'Plovers,' p. 342.) 



Durnford in 1876 met with this species in the Chupat Valley, " in the 

 still pools formed by the eddies in the river and in the adjacent stagnant 

 ditches." It was " usually seen in pairs." Leybold's collector obtained 

 specimens of it near Mendoza. 



397. GALLINAGO PARAGUALE (VieilU 

 (PARAGUAY SNIPE.) 



Scolopax frenata, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 503. Gallinago paraguaiae, 

 Sd. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 144 (Buenos Ayres) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 144 ; 

 Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 198 (Buenos Ayres) ; Barrows, Auk, 1884, p. 314 

 (Eritrerios) ; Withington, Ibis, 1888, p. 472 (Lomas de Zamora). Scolopax 

 frenata magellanica, Seebohm, Plovers, p. 496. 



Description. Above brown, striped and barred with black and pale fulvous ; 

 wings dark cinereous edged with white ; tail of 16 rectrices, of which the outer 

 pair are pin-shaped : beneath white, breast marbled with blackish and brown : 

 whole length 10-5 inches, wing 5*1, tail 2-4, bill 2-8. 



Hab. Patagonia, La Plata, and Paraguay. 



This familiar bird, called Agachona in the vernacular, from its habit 

 of crouching close to the ground to escape observation when approached, 

 is abundant in the Plata district arid resident, although its sudden and 

 total disappearance from all the open wet places where it is common in 



