80 BIRDS OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



feathers dark brown friiifyed with reddish brown, as ao^ainst 



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black fringed with greyish brown in my bird. 



In two examples from Chili, the fulvous throat is absent. 



This is a rare bird in Tierra del Fuego. I saw only one. This 

 I secured in some scattered clumps of brushwood {Chiliotrichum 

 ameUoideum)^ on the open downs to the south of Useless Bay. 

 In life it puzzled me to make out whether I knew it or not, and 

 I observed it closely for about a quarter of an hour. During this 

 time it kept moving about restlessly amongst the bushes, chirping 

 excitedly, but never allowing me to come very near ; so that, 

 believing there must be a nest, I made search for this, but could 

 not find it, nor was the mate to be seen. 



Many times was I in the same place, and two months in this 

 locality, without remarking another. 



Darwin says : — " These birds are not uncommon on the 

 dry rocky mountains near Valparaiso, and in the valleys of 

 Southern Patagonia, where a few thickets grow. They hop 

 actively about the withered herbage and low thickets, and often 

 feed on the ground." 



This specimen's stomach contained minute insects. 



PYGAHRHICUS ALBIGULARIS (King) 

 Dendrocolaptes albigularis, B^^'^g', Pro. Zool. Soc, p. 30, 1831. 



DendrodraniTlS leUCOSternUS, Gould and Darwin, Voy. " Beagle" 



Birds, p. 82, pi. xxvii, 1841. 

 PygarrhicuS albigulariS, Sdater, Cat Birds BHt. Mus., XV, p. 126, 



1890; Oustalet, Miss. Sci. Gap Horn, Ols., p. 70, 1891. 



Habitat. — Chili, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego. 



S, Eio McClelland Settlement, 24tli Nov. ; ? , 30th Dec, 1904. 

 Iris — dark brown; bill — dark horn colour, lower mandible white; legs 

 — dark grej. 



Captam King is the discoverer of the White-throated Wood 

 Hewer. Darwin met with it in Chiloe and Southern Chili 



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