594 MR. E. w. WHITE ON BIRDS [June 20, 



This bird is exceedingly abundant in the province of Buenos 

 Aires, but it is also met with nearly all over the Republic. Builds 

 a nest of twigs and dry grass, lined usually with horsehair, in holes 

 in the walls of barns and outhouses. I have not unfrequently 

 found the eggs of this bird in old nests of Furnarius rufus, and 

 sometimes even in the nest of Zonotrichia pileata, under a thistle 

 in the campo. 



The egg is of a pinkish ground, thickly sprinkled with minute 

 rufous spots, which are concentrated in a crown around the blunt 

 end. 



Measurements: axis 19 millim., diam. 14 millim, 



8. Anthus correndera (Vieill.). 



2 (S and 1 $ . San Jose' de Flores, B. Aires, Arg. Rep., Aug. 26, 

 1881. 



Iris dark. 



This bird is abundant at this season of the year in low-lying 

 swampy pastures, where the grass is high. Upon being disturbed 

 they start up high into the air, very much like an English lark, 

 singing all the while very prettily, and remain poised on the wing. 

 On the approach of a foot-passenger they crouch close to the 

 groimd, allowing the foot almost to tread upon them ; and as they 

 are of its exact colour, they are difficult to see. This habit leads 

 the observant country urchins to compass the destruction of these 

 poor birds, which they do by breaking off a piece of fencing wire, 

 about a yard and a half long, turning it up at the ends, seizing it by 

 one extremity, whirling it round their heads, all the while approaching 

 the feathered songsters, and then suddenly launching the chain shot, 

 which rarely misses its errand. 



9. Parula pitiayumi (Vieill.). 



c?. Sierras de Totoral, Catamarca, Arg. Rep., Aug. 22, 1880. 



cJ . San Javier, Misiones, Arg. Rep., June 7, 1881. 



Iris dark. 



In the sierras of Totoral I met with this bird, usually in the thick 

 parts of the woods ; yet it was not very common. It has a nice lively 

 chirp and is very quick in its movements. But in Misiones I found 

 it very abundant in the dense woods. 



10. Geothlypis velata (Vieill.). 



S. Oran, Salta, Arg. Rep., Nov. 18, 1880. 

 Iris sepia. 



I shot this bird out in the open country, where it was hopping 

 about in the thickest part of some low bushes near a running stream. 



11. Basileuterus vermivorus (Vieill.). 



cJ. San Javier, Misiones, Arg. Rep., June 7, 1881. 

 Iris dark. 

 This bird is not at all uncommon in the woods of Misiones. 



