. Bird-lore . GIANT HUMMIXUIJIRD AND THK CHILEAN RUBY-CROWNElJ H L .M lil RU IT HAS CAPTURED(One-half natural size) (.339). LAGUNA FRIA.—A SCENE IN THE HUMID SOUTH TEMPERATE ZONE IN ARGENTINANEAR THE CHILEAN LINE (340) Notes from a Traveler in the Tropics 341 A seventh call was strangely familiar, and, to my intense surprise, I learnedthat it was uttered by a California Valley Quail! There are so many things in Chile which suggest California that when Isucceeded in identifying the characteristic little crowing sit-right-down, sit-right-down, and heard it uttered by numbers of birds, I wa
. Bird-lore . GIANT HUMMIXUIJIRD AND THK CHILEAN RUBY-CROWNElJ H L .M lil RU IT HAS CAPTURED(One-half natural size) (.339). LAGUNA FRIA.—A SCENE IN THE HUMID SOUTH TEMPERATE ZONE IN ARGENTINANEAR THE CHILEAN LINE (340) Notes from a Traveler in the Tropics 341 A seventh call was strangely familiar, and, to my intense surprise, I learnedthat it was uttered by a California Valley Quail! There are so many things in Chile which suggest California that when Isucceeded in identifying the characteristic little crowing sit-right-down, sit-right-down, and heard it uttered by numbers of birds, I was not, for a moment,certain whether I was on the north or south Pacific coast. The mystery wasexplained by an American sportsman I subsequently met in Santiago, whoinformed me that Valley Quail had been introduced from California into Chile,at Coquimbo, in 1837. They are now among the common birds of central Chile. The blossoms of the eucalyptus trees about our inn at Apoquindo werefrequented by such large numbers of Hummingbirds that at times the airbuzzed as it would about a bee-hive. By far the larger number were the c
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