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of fine grasses ; the second of massive stalks of a composite 

 plant {Perezia recurvafa) lined with hairs and feathers ; the 

 third resembles the first, but contains many more feathers — 

 those of Chloepliaga ruhidiceps — so loosely put in as hardly to 

 possess any cohesion. 



In the Catalogue of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum, 

 the eggs are said to be of " blunt oval shape, and slightly 

 glossy. They are greyish white, densely freckled with greyish 

 brown and lavender. They measure from "76 to '83 in. in 

 length, and "6 in. in breadth." The series from which this 

 description is taken, consists of two sets, ot three each, from 

 the Berkeley James' collection from Central Chili ; and these, 

 I think, there can be no doubt are the eggs of Anthus correndera. 



The eggs of Centrites are smaller, and very differently 

 coloured. They are of blunt oval shape, of clear white colour, 

 spotted very sparsely over the entire surface with dark rusty 

 red, the spots generally inclining to form a ring at the larger 

 end. They measure from 0-7 to 0*75 inch in length, and from 

 0*55 to 0*6 inch in breadth. The eggs of each nest show remark- 

 able uniformity in size. In the case of the first, all four measure 

 0*75 by 0"55 inch; in that of the second, all three ' measure 

 0'75 by 0'6 inch ; in that of the third, three measure 0-75 by 0*6, 

 0*75 by 0'55, and 0*7 by 0'55 inch — the fourth having unfor- 

 tunately been blown from my hand by the wind and broken. 



AN^B-ETES PARULUS (Kittlitz) 



MuSCicapa parulllS, KittUtz, Mem. VAcad. Imp. des Sci. St. Petersh., 



p. 190, pi. ix, 1831. 

 CuliciVOra parulllS, B'Orhigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., Ois., p. 332, 



1835. 

 Serpopliaga parula, Gould and Darwin, Voy. '^Beagle,'' Birds, p. 49, 



1841. 

 AnaereteS parulus, Dumford, Ibis, p. 34, 1877, p. 395, 1878 ; Sclater, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, p. 106, 1888 ; Sclater and Hudson, Argentine 



Orn., i, p. 141, 1888. 



