Mr Dalgleish on Birds and Eggs from Centred Uruguay. 254a 



Errahim to Mr Dalgleish's Notes on a Collection of Birds 

 and Eggs from Central Uruguay. 



I regret to find that I have inadvertently adopted for one 

 of the species in this paper, a name given only provisionally 

 by Dr Sclater, who, on farther comparison and examination 

 of additional and more adult specimens lately received, has 

 pronounced it to belong to another s]3ecies. My remarks 

 therefore on this species, described at page 246 as Synallaxis 

 hudsoni (Sclater), will apply to Anumhius acuticaudatics (Less.) 

 modified as follows : Delete from " Synallaxis " on page 246 

 fourth line from bottom, to " ground " on second line of page 

 247; and read '' Anunibius acuticaudatus (Less.) — native 

 name * Espinero,' or thorn bird. — This is a common sj)ecies 

 at Tala, and resident. It is also found in Brazil and the 

 Argentine Eepublic. It lives on the ground, and unlike 

 many of its allies frequents dry ground. It is chiefly 

 remarkable for the size of its nest, which is very large for 

 the size of the bird. It is much persecuted by the Toldo, 

 who often takes possession of its nest, and sometimes for this 

 purpose will even kill and eject the young of the rightful 

 owner." 



\_Insert as p. 254a of Vol. F/.] 



