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as I saw no bird in South America whose habits approacli so 

 near to those of our Tomtits {Parus). It frequents bushes in 

 dry places, actively hopping about them, and sometimes repeating 

 a shrill cry ; it often moves in small bodies of three or four 

 too;ether." 



Durnford found it rare in Patagonia. He observed two 

 pairs amongst thick bushes, and obtained a male and female. 

 He took a nest on the 7th November from a thick thorn bush, 

 about three feet from the ground, composed of grass, warmly 

 lined with feathers, and containing two eggs, white in colour, 

 and measuring 0*6 by 0*4 inch. 



The French Mission to Cape Horn do not record it. 



ELAINEA ALBICEPS (D'Orbigny et Lafresnaye) 



MuSCipeta albiceps, WOrUgny, Voy. Amer. Mericl, Oz's., p. 319, 18.S5 ; 



D'Orbigny et Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool., p. 47, 1837. 

 Myiobius albiceps, Gould and Darwin, Voy. " Beagle,"" Birds, p. 47, 



1841. 



Elainea griseogularis, Sciater, Fro. Zooi. Soc, pi. cxivi, 1858. 



Elainea albiceps, Dnmford, ibis, p. 60, 1878 ; Sdater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xiv, p. 141, 1888 ; Sciater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., i, p. 145, 

 1888 ; Oustalet, Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, Ois., p. 60, 1891. 



Habitat. — South America, and Tierra del Fuego. 



? , Rio McClelland Settlement, 13th Dec. ; ? , 15th Dec. ; S, 20th Dec, 

 1904; 



Iris — brown ; bill and legs— dark drab. 



The White -Crested Tyrant is an exceedingly variable species 

 with a wide range, which, according to Dr. Sciater, includes all 

 South America except Colombia. 



On comparison with Peru examples, on which Sclater's 

 description is based, I find the Tierra del Fuego birds uniformly 

 olivaceous brown above rather than "dark ashy brown"; whereas 



