This Seed-Snipe is also found in Peru at high elevations in the Puna region (12,000 to 14,000 feet), where M. Jelski obtained its eggs. A description of them with some interesting notes on the habits of the species are given in Taczanowski's 'Ornithologie du Pérou.' Fam. XLIX. SCOLOPACIDÆ, or SNIPES. Like the Plovers, the Snipes are nearly universally distributed over the world's surface, though most abundant in northern regions. Of about 35 Neotropical species 15 are known to occur in the Argentine Republic, and many additions to the list of these wandering birds may be reasonably expected. Of the fifteen Scolopacidæ already recognized as occurring within our limits, all but three are Arctic species, which only visit the far south during their migrations. The three exceptions are the Brazilian Stilt (_Himantopus brasiliensis_), the Paraguay Snipe (_Gallinago paraguaiæ_), and the Painted Snipe (_Rhynchæa semicollaris_), which are resident all the year in the Argentine Republic. 395. HIMANTOPUS BRASILIENSIS, Brehm. (BRAZILIAN STILT.) +Himantopus nigricollis+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 502 (Pampas); _Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S._ 1868, p. 144 (Buenos Ayres); _Barrows, Auk_, 1884, p. 314 (Entrerios, Azul, Pampas). +Himantopus brasiliensis+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 144; _iid. P. Z. S._ 1873 p. 454; _Durnford, Ibis_, 1877, p. 198 (Buenos Ayres); _Gibson, Ibis_, 1880, p. 162 (Buenos Ayres). _Description._--White; line behind each eye, nape, back of neck, interscapulium, and wings black; a narrow white band divides the black neck from the black upper back; bill black; feet orange: whole length 14·0 inches, wing 8·5, tail 3·3, bill from gape 2·5, tarsus 4·2. _Female_ similar. [Illustration: Head of BRAZILIAN STILT. (P. Z. S. 1873, p. 454.)] _Hab._ South America. This bird is resident and common in the Plata district, and is called in the vernacular _Téru-real_, also _Zancudo_ (stilt). It frequents marshes and lagoons, and wades in search of food in the shallow water near the margin. It is lively in its movements, and notwithstanding the great length of its legs has a pretty, graceful appearance on the ground. On the wing, however, it is seen at its best, the flight being remarkably swift and free, while the sharply-pointed glossy-black wings contrast finely with the snow-white plumage of the body, and the red legs stretched out straight behind have the appearance of a long slender tail. Stilts are fond of aerial exercises, pursuing each other with marvellous velocity through the air, so that a few moments after the spectator has almost lost sight of them in the sky above they are down again within a few yards of the surface. While pursuing each other they constantly utter their excited barking cries, which in tone remind one of the melodious barking of some hounds.