(WARBLING EARTH-CREEPER.)
+Ochetorhynchus luscinia+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 464
(Mendoza, Paraná). +Upucerthia luscinia+, _Scl. et Salv.
Nomencl._ p. 62; _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 610 (Catamarca);
_Salvin, Ibis_, 1880, p. 358 (Salta).
_Description._--Above earthy brown; front, lores, and rim round the
eye bright rufous; wings blackish, outer webs more or less edged
with rufous earthy brown; tail earthy brown, lateral rectrices
tinged with rufous; below pale cinereous with a slight rufescent
tinge; throat clear white; under wing-coverts and inner margins of
the wing-feathers cinnamon-red; bill hazel, paler at the base; feet
pale brown: whole length 7·5 inches, wing 3·0, tail 3·1. _Female_
similar.
_Hab._ Argentina.
Professor Burmeister was the first discoverer of this species, which he
tells us is common near Mendoza, in Paraná, and in the neighbouring
pampas. In Paraná he found it nesting under the roof of his house and
feeding upon insects. The eggs are pure white. It is the _Ruisiñor_
or "Nightingale" of the natives, whence he gave it the specific name
_luscinia_--a strange name for any species in the shrill-voiced
Dendrocolaptine family.