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3. Xolmis varieg ata. G. R. Gray. 
Plate XI. 
Pepoaza variegata. D’Orb. fy Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1837. p. 63. Voy. dans l’Amer. Mer. Orn. pi. 39. f. 2. 
Teenioptera variegata. On plate. 
This bird feeds in small flocks, often mingled with the icteri, plovers, and 
other birds on the ground. Its manner of flight and general appearance never 
failed to call to my recollection our common fieldfares ( Tardus pilaris, Linn.) 
and I may observe that its plumage (in accordance with these habits) is different 
from that of the rest of the genus. I opened the stomachs of some specimens 
killed at Maldonado, and found in them seeds and ants. At Bahia Blanca I saw 
these birds catching on the wing large stercovorous Coleoptera ; in this respect it 
follows the habits, although in most others it differs from those of the rest of its 
tribe. Iris rich brown. 
4. Xolmis pyrope. G. R . Gray. 
Muscicapa pyrope, Kitlitz. Mem, l’Acad. Imp. des Sci. St. Peters. 1831. p. 191. pi. 10. Yogel von Chili, 
pi. 10. p. 19. 
Pepoaza pyrope, D’Orb. <f Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1837. p. 63. 
This bird is not uncommon near Port Famine in Tierra del Fuego, and 
along the whole western coast (at Chiloe specimens were obtained) even as far 
north as the desert valley of Copiapo. In the thickly wooded countries of Tierra 
del Fuego and Chiloe, where it is more common than further northward, it 
generally takes its station on the branch of a tree, on the outskirts of the forest. 
When thus perched, usually at some height above the ground, it sharply looks out 
for insects passing by, which it takes on the wing. Iris scarlet. It builds a 
coarse nest in bushes. Egg perfectly white, pointed oval ; length one inch, 
breadth 76 of an inch. 
