1920.] Cape San Anfon.io, Buenos Ayres. 80 



plumbeous, slightly darker in the male ; feet similarly 

 olive-grey. 



Hudson rightly alludes to this species as a beautiful 

 Grebe, and had he known it personally, and been in a 

 position to add to his description the brilliant scarlet eyes 

 and plumbeous bill in juxtaposition with the golden ear- 

 coverts and strong- coloration of the head and neck, his 

 praise would have been further justified. 



The Bright-cheeked Grebe is, I think, resident all the year 

 round in our district, but not common. Until I levised my 

 diary I was under a different impression, and this conclusion 

 must have been arrived at from two reasons — the striking 

 individuality of the species and the fact that it is peculiarly 

 local. Year after year, at one season or another, I was sure 

 to see a pair or a small flock (parents and brood ?) at certain 

 lagunas or open water-spaces of our largest canadones ; 

 these particular localities not being more than two or three 

 in number. 



I have no reference in my journal to any note or cry. 



Of its breeding-habits I am in ignorance. The nearest 

 approach is that of the brood referred to at the beginning of 

 this notice. I had shot the two adults in the open part of a 

 deep Canada^ and, the spoc being a good one, was again on 

 the watch in a canoe a couple of days subsequently, when, to 

 my surprise, the three young birds came out of the rushes 

 singly and at long intervals, and were duly secured. 



Podiceps americaims Garu. 



Iris crimson or claret-colour, pupil black ; bill dark 

 brown or horn-colour above, lighter below ; feet olive-grey 

 or dark grey. Both sexes the same. 



This is the species which 1 erroneously described in my 

 former paper as Podiceps rollandi Q,uoy et Gaim. (Rolland^s 

 Grebe). The latter would seem to be totally unconnected 

 with this district. 



My former notes hold good otherwise and require little 

 amplification. Aljundant and generally distributed, it is a 

 familiar and interesting member of the Grebe family, 



