CACHILA PIPIT 23 
and abandon; and yet it is impossible not to think 
of the Skylark when describing the Cachila, which 
in its manners, appearance, and in its habit of soaring 
to a great height when singing, seems so like a small 
copy of that bird. 
The Cachila rears two broods in the year; the 
first is hatched about the middle of August, that is, 
one to three months before the laying-season of other 
Passerine species. By anticipating the breeding- 
season their early nests escape the evil of parasitical 
eggs; but on the other hand, frosty nights and 
heavy rains are probably as fatal to as many early 
broods as the instinct of the Molothrus bonariensis, 
or Cow-bird, is to others at a later period. 
There is another species of Pipit found in Argen- 
tina, the Fork-tailed Pipit, Anthus furcatus; it 
inhabits the grassy pampas and the moist valleys in 
Patagonia, but so closely resembles the Cachila in 
its plumage, language, and habits as to be generally 
taken for that species. The only difference I have 
noted is that it is shyer, and has a somewhat shriller 
song. 
