(WING-BANDED GOATSUCKER.)
+Stenopsis bifasciata+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 96; _iid. P. Z.
S._ 1868, p. 142 (Buenos Ayres); _Durnford, Ibis_, 1877, p. 37
(Chupat), et 1878, p. 396 (Centr. Patagonia). +Antrostomus
longirostris+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 450 (Mendoza).
_Description._--Above greyish brown variegated with black, crown
black; light rufous collar at the back of the neck; wing-coverts
with large light brown spots; primaries black, with a broad white
bar across the five outer ones; tail black; lateral rectrices with a
white bar near the base, and very broad white tips: beneath fulvous,
with narrow blackish cross bands; throat-band white; crissum pale
fulvous: whole length 10·0 inches, wing 6·0, tail 5·0. _Female_
similar, but the white on the throat, wings, and tail replaced by
fulvous and less extended.
_Hab._ Chili, Patagonia, and Argentina.
A single skin of this species was obtained at Conchitas by Hudson.
Durnford also found it rather rare in Chupat and its vicinity, though
resident and breeding in that district. "When flushed it never flies
very far, but seeks the shelter of a small bush, squatting flat on the
ground, and from its peculiar zigzag mode of flight it is difficult for
the eye to follow it."