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Show 1882.] FROM T H E ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 613 111. ANABAZENOPS RUFO-SUPERCILIATUS (Lafr.). cf. Sierras de Totoral, Catamarca, Arg. Rep., July 26, 1880. Iris light brown. A very wild bird, and exceedingly scarce on this well-wooded mountain-range, but occasionally seen amongst the brushwood in damp places on the hill-side. 112. SITTASOMUS OLIVACEUS (Max.). cf. Campo Santo, Salta, Arg. Rep., Nov. 29, 1880. 2 • Campo Colorado, Oran, Salta, Arg. Rep., Nov. 4, 1880. Observed, but not abundantly, in the magnificent gloomy forests of Campo Colorado, yet very difficult to distinguish, being of the same hue as the trunks up which they run. 113. GLYPHORHYNCHUS CUNEATUS (Licht.). cf . Concepcion, Misiones, Arg. Rep., June 27, 1881. Iris dark. Not uncommon in the thick woods, as also in the extensive orange-groves around the old Jesuit ruins. 114. DENDROCOLAPTES PICUMNUS (Licht.). 2 . Concepcion, Misiones, Arg. Rep., June 21, 1881. Shot in the thickest parts of woods near the river, climbing up the trees, around which it turned in corkscrew fashion; but does not seem common. 115. DRYMORNIS BRIDGESI (Eyton). 2 . Pilciao near Andalgala, Catamarca, Arg. Rep., Sept. 17, 1880. Iris brown. The crv of this bird is much the same as that of a Woodpecker, and it clings to the algarroba trees in a similar way; but in the afternoon it is seen scattered about on the sandy ground in the pursuit of insects. I have observed it in the northern provinces of the Republic, perhaps as far south as Cordova, although in one instance, in the month of February, a friend of mine obtained a single specimen at Monte Grande, in the vicinity of Buenos Aires. Not in one solitary instance, however, have I met with the bird to the eastward, in Corrientes or Misiones. [Mr. White calls this species Nasica longirostris ; but I have little doubt it is Drymornis bridgesi, of which I have skins from Mendoza, and Gualeguaychu, in Entrerios. Nasica is from Guiana and Amazonis, and does not occur so far south.-P. L. S.] 116. XIPHOCOLAPTES ALBICOLLIS (Vieill.). 2 . San Javier, Misiones, Arg. Rep., June 7, 1881. 117. XIPHOCOLAPTES MAJOR (Vieill.). cf 2- Campo Colorado, Oran, Salta, Arg. Rep., Nov. 4, 1880. Iris crimson. Common here in the dense forest, where their continued hard pecking at the lofty tree-trunks is very accentuated. Two or three |