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BIRD NOTES: 
THE 
JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 
A Tour in South America and Aviary Notes. 
By The I.ady Dunleath. 
Perhaps some of your readers would like to lieai' about our 
tour in Soutli America. We left Southampton on February 19th 
in l-J.M.S. Astui-ias and came in for very heavy «ales in the Bay. 
We called at Madeii'a anil I saw a few birds for sale there. Wax- 
bills, not looivin^ at all liealtliy, and native canaries for which they 
asked exorbitant prices knowing that we were only staying for a 
few hours. We stopped at Rio de Janeiro for nearly a day, 
landed early antl went up the Corcovada, a high mountain, in a 
cog wheel train. I was disappointed at not seeing any Humming 
Birds, but some of our party saw several, neither did we see any 
parrots. The butterflies were most gorgeous, one in particular, 
sky blue and of an enormous size. 
We arrived at Buenos Aires on March 12th, and after a few 
days were asked to pay a visit to Fray Bentos the great Liebig 
Factory, in the province of Uraguay. The managers were most 
kind and drove us all over one of the Estancias, where we saw a 
great number of beautiful birds, among them the Oven bird which 
has a curious oven like nest attached to the branches of trees. 
There were also a great number of Crested Cardinals, they seemed 
as common as our Blackbirds flying about and running on the 
ground. 
There were also many other beautiful birds, but unfortun- 
ately they all had Spanish names and I do not remember them. 
At tlie manager's house in his lovely Tropical garden I saw my 
first Humming Bird, such a tiny little thing hovering over flowers 
like a big bee. He was green, with a ruby red head. The cook 
had found their nest in the garden border close to the ground, 
when locusts were being destroyed ; she rescued the three young 
ones and reared them on sugar and honey ; they had just been 
turned out and this was one of them. We paid several visits to 
