128 BIRDS OF TIERRA DEL FUEGO 



Capt. Abbott says the Paraguayan Snipe arrives in the 

 Falkland Islands aboat the middle of August, and lays very 

 soon afterwards, for he has taken eggs on the 1st of September. 

 It mostly takes its departure in March, although a few stragglers 

 remain all the year round. 



In the Province of Buenos Ayres, Durnford found this 

 Snipe for the greater part migratory, arriving in April and 

 leaving in August ; but though he did not find any nests, he 

 felt sure some few breed in this neighbourhood. " During the 

 winter they are sometimes extremely numerous," he says, 

 " affording excellent sport ; but their movements are yery 

 uncertain, for where there may be hundreds one day, the next 

 there are scarcely any to be seen. At this season they go in 

 small parties, or in flocks numbering three or four hundred birds. 

 During the spring they go through the same aerial movements 

 as the Common Snipe at home, rising to a great height by 

 a circling motion^ and ' drumming ' whilst descending in 

 a diagonal line." 



The Paraguayan Snipe is paler coloured, and weighs less 

 than any other full Snipe I have shot. My three examples 

 weighed respectively 4|;, 4, and 3J ounces. 



The eggs of this bird were to be had at San Sebastian Settle- 

 ment about the end of September. I took a nest containing two 

 eggs at Cheena Creek on November 17th. In shape these eggs 

 are pyriform, in colour olive, spotted and blotched fairly evenly 

 over the entire surface. They measure 1*7 by 1*2, and 1*6 by 

 1*25 inches respectively. 



TRINGA FUSCICOLLIS (Vieillot) 



ChorlitO del pestorejO pardO, Azara, Pdxaros, Paraguay y La 



Plata, iii, p. 322, 1805. 

 Tringa fuSCicollis, FiWZZof, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ,xxxiy, p. 461, 1819 ; 



