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Noles of some Birds in the Andes. 
The only birds I have left out are the two extremes, 
i.e. Condors and Humming Birds; as no lover of birds could, 
for obvious reasons wish to keep these in confinement. 
CHIMANGO KITE: (Milvargo chiman<jo). 
These l)irds occur in the valleys uj) to 13,000 feet. 
They Uv(> on carrion chiefly, also on eartli worms, but will 
kill young chickens, insects (beetle? elc), and eat veg(^tal)le;!i. 
One I shot had a large toad in its bill. 
I caught two alive, one in a rat-trap, baited with a 
dead mouse, the other I shot, breaking its wing and leg, an- 
other shot passing through its cro[), but he soon recovered. 
Both became very tame and lived for some time in the 
London Zoological Gardens. 
MAGELLAN'S OWL: (Bubo magellanicus) . 
One I shot at Punta-de-las-Vacias, 9,000 feet. Another 
I had alive for some months and was very tame. 
COMMON MINOR: (Gcosifta cunicularia) . 
This and the two following are something like the Wheat - 
ear in habit and feeding, they build between big stones and 
in hole.^ in walls. 
ISABELLINE MINOR: (G . isahcUina) . 
AVHITE RUMPEU MINOR: (G . fasciata). 
BROWN CINCLODES: (Cinclodcs fuscus). 
This, the commoner of the two species, I found up to 
12,000 feet. 
In the winter when every other living thing has been 
driven away by the cold, these birds collect under the great 
natural bridge of Puente-del-Inca and spend the winter there. 
There are several hot springs here, which I think, account 
for theii- staying. 
I found a horse-hair nest with three white eggs under 
a boulder close to the " bridge." 
In habits they very closely resemble our common "Dipper, 
the nest and eggs also having a striking resemblance. 
WHITE-WINGED CINCLODES: (C. bijascialus). 
\'ery rare. Only found in one marsh in the Inca \'alloy. 
Much the same as above. 
TATACiONlAN EARTH-CREEPER: (Vpiicnihia dnmcloiia). 
I saw these birds as 'higli as 11,000 feet up the Horconcs 
