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have come from Mexico, and a female shot in June, 1871, in Eio 

 Negro. Since the description is that of Notioenas maculosa the type 

 should be restricted to the second specimen as is done here, and the 

 specimen said to have come from Mexico if (as seems from what 

 Schlegel has written) this species, considered as bearing an erroneous 

 locality. 



The present subspecies was recorded December 28, 1920, at Victor- 

 ica, Pampa, in fair numbers, and an adult male was taken. The 

 birds at this season were in pairs that ranged through the open 

 monte. During the heat of the day they rested on the broad limbs of 

 calden or algarroba trees where they found comfortable perches well 

 shaded from the intense rays of the sun. At evening they came to 

 drink from a water hole near town. When approached they flushed 

 with loudly clapping wings and darted swiftly away. As I passed 

 a tree containing a large hollow, I heard a strange growling call 

 in a low tone that I attributed to the young of some monte cat. On 

 investigation I found nothing in the hollow, though I noted that a 

 pair of spotted-winged pigeons flushed from the tree, a circum- 

 stance to Avhich I paid no attention until later when a wounded 

 pigeon in my hand uttered the same queer call. 



The male secured, when first killed, had the bill dull black; iris 

 slightly darker than pearl gray ; tarsus and toes neutral red ; claws 



Ml fl P K 



Order CUCULIFORMES 

 Family CUCULIDAE 



CROTOPHAGA ANI Linnaeus 



Crotopliaga ani Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 105. (East- 

 ern Brazil.'*) 



At Las Palmas, Chaco, the ani was fairly common and a male was 

 taken on July 19, 1920. Others were recorded July 22 and 24. Sev- 

 eral were seen at Formosa, Formosa, August 24, and on September 

 30 a male and a female were shot from a flock of a dozen on the 

 Paraguay River at Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay. In Guarani the 

 species is known as ano-i or little ano, so that the name ani is per- 

 haps a contraction of this term. 



The three taken seem to offer no tangible differences from speci- 

 mens from the northern range of the species. 



GUIRA GUIRA (Gmelin) 



Cticulus guira Gmeilin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 414. (Brazil.) 



In a small series of specimens from Paraguay, Uruguay, and the 

 following Provinces and Territories of Argentina, namely, Buenos 



=58 See Berlepsch and Hartert, Nov. Zool., vol. 9, April, 1902, p. 98, and Hellmayr 

 Nov. Zool., vol. 12, September, 1905, p. 299. 



