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found in very large flocks." In the Chupat Yalley he again 

 found it : — " The most numerous species of Duck, nesting in thick 

 grass in the vicinity of the river. Large flocks were feeding on 

 the mussel-beds just outside the harbour." He mentions that 

 the colonists trap these birds at night when they come to feed 

 on the wheat stubbles. 



The Pintail breeds in the long grass in bottoms, also on the 

 higher ground where there is covert not far from water. 



At Sara Settlement, on Oct. 19th, I found a nest in long 

 grass containing seven eggs, two of which I took. These eggs 

 are of exactly the same shape, size, and colour : oval, cream 

 colour, 2'1 by 1*5 inches. 



This bird weighed 1 pound 6 ounces. 



QUERQUEDULA FLAVIROSTRIS (Vieillot) 



PatO del piCO amarillo y negro, Azara, Pdxaros, Paragumj y 



La Plata, iii, p. 448, 1805. 

 Anas flavirostris, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., y, p. 107, 1816. 

 Querquedula CreCCOideS, Gould and Darwin, Voy. " Beagle,'' Birds, 



p. 135, 1841 ; Cassin, U.S. Astron. Exp., ii, p. 203, pi. xxvi, 1855 ; Abbott, 



Ibis, p. 160, 1861. 



Querquedula flavirostris, Bumford, Ibis, pp. 41, 191, 1877 ; 



Sclater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., iii, p. 131, 1889 ; Oustalet, Miss. Sci. 

 Gap Horn, Ois., p. 205, 1891. 

 Nettion flavirOStre, Sahadori, Gat. Birds Brit. AIus., xxvii, p. 261, 



1895. 



Habitat. — Southern Brazil, the Argentine Republic, and Chili, to Tierra 

 del Fuego ; the Falkland Islands. 



c?, Rio McClelland Settlement, 6tli Jan. ; ^, 10th Jan., 1905. 

 Iris — black ; bill — yellow, centre dark grey ; legs — greenish, drab. 



Many expeditions record the Yellow-billed Teal. By King 

 it was obtained in the Strait of Magellan, and by Darwin 



