1 6 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 



Prichard, Through the Heart of Patagonia (p. 163), writes: "During 

 the whole of our travels we observed but one kind of Rhea (Rhea dar- 

 wini]. The remarks that Darwin makes concerning the habits of this 

 bird have little to be added to them. The male bird, which hatches out 

 the young, will, when approached, feign to be wounded in order to draw 

 off the intruder from the nest of the chicks. I have never seen more than 

 nineteen -chicks with a single ostrich at any period within a month or two 

 of the hatching, but I was informed by the Gauchos that this number is 

 not an outside limit." 



Subclass CARINAT^E. 



Huxley, P. Z. S. 1867 pp. 424-472 ; Sharpe, Hand-List Bds., I. p. 8, 



(1899). 

 Neognathce, Pycraft, Trans. Zool. Soc. XV.' pp. 149-290 (1900); id. J. 



Linn. Soc. Zool. XXVIII. pp. 343-357, pis. 31, 32 (1901). 



Order TIN AM I FORMES. 



Crypturiformes, Sharpe, Classif. Bds. p. 68 (1891) (= Tinamiformes]. 

 Tinamiformes, id. Hand-List Bds. I. p. 8 (1899) : Mitchell, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. (2) VIII. pp. 173-275, pis. 21-23 (1901 : Intestinal tract). 



Family TINAMID^:. 



Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 496 ('1895) ; Sharpe, Hand- 

 List Bds. I. p. 8 (1899) : De Guerne, C. R. Congr. Orn. III. pp. 65- 

 75 (1901 : Life-history). 



Subfamily TINAMIN^E. 



Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XXVII. p. 496 (1895); Sharpe, Hand- 

 List Bds. I. p. 8 (1899). 



