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Birds of Central Patagonia. 
-4'^Phrygilus CANiCEPsfj Burm. 
I believe this is only a spring visitor to the Chupat valley; 
and it is not common. 
Iris light rufous ; upper mandible dark horn-colour; under 
one pale horn-colour^ tip darker; legs rufous brown, feet and 
claws black. Not seen during our journey to the lakes. 
Phrygilus fruticeti. 
Common at Chupat throughout the spring and summer, 
and often seen during our journey in the valleys; it never 
wanders far from water. On the 20th September I took a 
nest on the hills near the colony: it was a very neat struc¬ 
ture of wool, feathers, and the flowers of a grass, and placed 
in the centre of a thick bush, about a foot above the ground. 
It contained two eggs, of a pale green ground-colour, thickly 
marked with dull chocolate spots and streaks. 
Iris wood-brown ; beak dark flesh-colour, tip of both man¬ 
dibles and the whole of the upper mandible darkest; legs and 
feet reddish flesh-colour. 
■^ZONOTRICHIA CANICAPILLA. 
Resident and abundant everywhere. It has a pretty little 
warble, which it sings in the evening and during the night 
when the moon is shining; and often whilst lying awake under 
my Yergas and Guanaco robe, this Sparrow kept up its 
song within a few yards of my head. 
Iris wood-brown ; legs light horn-colour; feet darker, claws 
black. 
Zonotrichia pileata does not occur in Patagonia. 
„.-^Diuca minor. 
I shot one at Tombo Point on the 31st December, 1877, 
and have never seen another. 
t [Mr. Durnford has marked his two specimens P. ccmiceps^ Burm.” 
{^Phrygilus caniceps, Bm’m., J. f. 0. 1860, p. 158, and ‘ La Plata-Beise,’ ii. 
p. 487), having, we presume, compared them with specimens so named by 
Prof. Burmeister. We should have expected them to have belonged to 
the species determined by us to be Chlorospiza aldunati, Gay (Ibis, 1869, 
p. 285) ; but such is not the case, the breast of Mr. Durnford’s bird being 
of a much deeper orange tint, besides other differences. A revision of this 
section of Phrygilus is necessary when sufficient materials come to hand. 
—Edd.] 
