1882.] FROM THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 613 



111. Anabazenops rufo-superciliatus (Lafr.). 



c?. Sierras de Totoral, Catamarca, Arg. Rep., July 26, 1880. 



Iris light brown. 



A very wild bird, and exceedingly scarce on this well-wooded 

 mountain-range, but occasionally seen amongst the brushwood in 

 damp places on the hill-side. 



112. SiTTASOMUs OLivACEUs (Max.). 



cJ. Campo Santo, Salta, Arg. Rep., Nov. 29, 1880. 



? . Campo Colorado, Oran, Salta, Arg. Rep., Nov. 4, 1 880. 



Observed, but not abundantly, in the magnificent gloomy forests of 

 Campo Colorado, yet very difficult to distinguish, being of the same 

 hue as the trunks up which they run. 



113. Glyphorhynchus cuneatus (Licht.), 



cS ■ Concepcion, Misiones, Arg. Rep., June 27, 1881. 

 Iris dark. 



Not uncommon in the thick woods, as also in the extensive orange- 

 groves around the old Jesuit ruins, 



114. Dendrocolaptes picumnus (Licht.). 



2 . Concepcion, Misiones, Arg. Rep., June 21, 1881. 



Shot in the thickest parts of woods near the river, climbing up 

 the trees, around which it turned in corkscrew fashion ; but does 

 not seem common. 



115. Drymornis bridgesi (Eyton). 



2 . Pilciao near Andalgala, Catamarca, Arg. Rep., Sept. 17, 1880. 



Iris brown. 



The cry of this bird is much the same as that of a "Woodpecker, 

 and it clings to the algarroba trees in a similar way ; but in the after- 

 noon it is seen scattered about on the sandy ground in the pursuit 

 of insects. I have observed it in the northern provinces of the 

 Republic, perhaps as far south as Cordova, although in one instance, 

 in the month of February, a friend of mine obtained a single speci- 

 men at Monte Grande, in the vicinity of Buenos Aires. Not in one 

 solitary instance, however, have I met with the bird to the eastward, 

 in Corrientes or Misiones. 



[Mr. White calls this species Nasica longirostris ; but I have little 

 doubt it is Drymornis bridgesi, of which I have skins from Mendoza, 

 and Gualeguaychu, in Entrerios. Nasica is from Guiana and 

 Amazonis, and does not occur so far south. — P. L. S.] 



116. Xiphocolaptes albicollis (Vieill.). 



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



117- Xiphocolaptes major (Vieill.), 



cJ $. Campo Colorado, Oran, Salta, Arg. Rep., Nov. 4, 1880. 

 Iris crimson. 



Common here in the dense forest, where their continued hard 

 pecking at the lofty tree-trunks is very accentuated. Two or three 



