This latter name is well given; for I defy any one at first to feel certain that a small dog is not yelping somewhere in the forest.

Just as with the cheucau, a person will sometimes hear the bark close by, but in vain may endeavour by watching, and with still less chance by beating the bushes, to see the bird; yet at other times the guid-guid fearlessly comes near.
Its manner of feeding and its general habits are very similar to those of the cheucau.
On the coast, a small dusky-coloured bird (Opetiorhynchus Patagonicus) is very common.

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I may mention, as a proof of how great a difference there is between the seasons of the wooded and the open parts of this coast, that on September 20th, in latitude 34 degrees, these birds had young ones in the nest, while among the Chonos Islands, three months later in the summer, they were only laying, the difference in latitude between these two places being about 700 miles.) It is remarkable from its quiet habits; it lives entirely on the sea-beach, like a sandpiper.
Besides these birds only few others inhabit this broken land.

In my rough notes I describe the strange noises, which, although frequently heard within these gloomy forests, yet scarcely disturb the general silence.