(RED-TAILED EARTH-CREEPER.)
+Ochetorhynchus ruficauda+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 463
(Mendoza).
_Description._--Above earthy brown, superciliaries whitish, lower
half of back and outer secondaries strongly tinged with rufous; tail
deep ferruginous red, inner webs of all the lateral rectrices black;
beneath white, breast more or less freckled with greyish; belly,
flanks, and crissum pale cinnamomeous brown; under surface of
wings blackish, with a transverse cinnamomeous bar; bill and feet
blackish: whole length 8·0 inches, wing 3·5, tail 3·3. _Female_
similar.
_Hab._ Chili and Mendoza.
The straight bill and red colour of the tail-feathers at once
distinguish this species from the former. Burmeister obtained specimens
of it in the Sierra of Uspallata, where it was met with hopping about
the rocks and feeding on insects.