REVIEWS. 
HE PAMPAS AND ANDES.*— When one considers that this pedestrian 
feat was performed by Mr. Bishop when only seventeen years old, unaided 
: by influential friends, having no money, and no knowledge of the lan- 
guage, and for a time sustaining himself by his own labor, one must 
confess an admiration for the boy's pluck. A perusal of the book shows 
how one will brave a thousand dangers when impelled by a love of nature. 
physical ea of the country, etc. me errors which have found 
peri Mes into our text books are corrected. We € for instance, that 
ace as Uraguay is known in South America. The province, 
no 
tics called Uraguay on our maps, is properly inea Banda ‘Oriental 
e Burrowing owl of South America. As an account has 
already been given in the NATURALIST of the Burrowing owl of the West, 
we subjoin Mr. Bishop's aecount of the companion species in South 
America: 
* Į first met with this owl on the —— of the River San — i the Banda certae one hun- 
dred and air miles west of Mon Sip where a few pairs were observed devouring mice 
and insects during the daytime. From the river, travelling westward thirty sido x "e not 
meet a single individual, but after Sere DL as Vacas, and coming upon a sandy w cov- 
ered with seatte es and low bushes, I again met with several. 
* Upon the pampas of the Argentine Remibiie they are found in great numbers, from a few 
med) oe M aa on toe. Parana, latitude 32? 56' south, to the vicinity of San Luis, where 


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4 i lains of it lives i ith the dizeacha, "The habits of this 
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he prairies of western North lage But this is not strictly correct, for o one writer says of 
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d: northern species, *we have evidenee t resort to one 
burrow;’ and Say remarks that the were either common, —- — egets of 
the ise papam or that our owl was the sole oceupan ant of a ired by the right 
of conquest.’ In this respe iffy ri jaar who ie in per- 
fect harmony with the bizcaha, and during the day, while inc latter is sleeping, a pair of these 
bird: f the bu w, and at the iis t strange sow 
be it near or distan tl ti ui or upon the mound 
E re reci the mide When man approaches, both birds bove him in 

the air, and keep pea their alarm note, with irides dilated, until he ] passes, when they 
quietly settle down grass, or return to their former place, 
the daytime, but at 

sunset tl cha and owls leave their holes, and search fr fod the young ofthe Former 
oe ee ee hem. They do not associate companies, there 

oes nd at nigh 



