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Another (preserved as a skeleton) taken at the Riacho Pilaga, For- 

 mosa, August 18, was of equal size. Two immature birds, shot at 

 Tapia, Tucuman, April 7 and 11, do not have the wing fully devel- 

 oped but are placed with this form on geographic grounds. Ac- 

 cording to a revision of this genus by Todd,®^ true cyanea^ charac- 

 terized by shorter wing (less than 80.5 mm.), ranges from Pernam- 

 buco and Rio Grande do Sul, west to Goyaz and Paraguay. These 

 birds were found near the ground in heavj^ thickets where they were 

 located with difficulty. 



An adult male, taken July 23, had the bill black, becoming slate 

 gray number 5 at base of mandible; iris Rood's brown; tarsus fus- 

 cous; toes dull black. 



PAROARIA CRISTATA (Boddaert) 



Frinffilla Dominwana Gristata, Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enl., 1783, p. 7, 

 (Brazil.) 



Mathews and Iredale °^ have indicated correctly that Loxla cucul- 

 lata Latham 1790, long in vogue for the species laiown to avicul- 

 turists as the Brazilian cardinal, is preoccupied by Loxla cucullata 

 Miiller, so that the species must be titled as indicated above. 



P. cristata was found as follows : Santa Fe, Santa Fe, July 4, 

 1920; Las Palmas, Chaco, July 21 and 30; Riacho Pilaga, Formosa, 

 August 8 to 16; Formosa, Formosa, August 23 and 24; Kilometer 

 80, west of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, September 6 to 20 (three skins 

 jDreserved) ; Lavalle, Buenos Aires, October 30 and November 2 

 (one taken) ; La Paloma, Uruguay, January 23, 1921; San Vicente, 

 Uruguay, Januarj^ 26 to 31 (one taken) ; Lazcano, Uruguay, Febru- 

 ary 5 to 9. Specimens from the Province of Buenos Aires have 

 slightl}'' larger bills than those from Paraguay. I have not seen 

 skins with authentic localities from Brazil. The species was com- 

 mon in a number of localities visited in the Chaco and in eastern 

 Uruguay, and was found occasionally on the pampas, where groves 

 and thickets furnished cover. The birds fed often on the grovmd 

 in wet localities, or on vegetation floating on little ponds where they 

 walked about with ease as their large feet and long toes prevented 

 their sinking deeply. At such times their bright colors contrasted 

 handsomely with their green background. The species was common 

 as a cage bird and was held in high esteem for its pleasant song. 



A male, taken September 7, had the upper part of the maxilla and 

 tip of the mandible deep mouse gray; sides of maxilla and rest of 

 mandible whitish, tinged very slightly with gray; iris pecan brown; 

 tarsus and toes fuscous black. 



87 Auk, 1923, pp. 58-69. 



osAustr. Av. Rec, vol. 3, Nov. 19, 1915, p. 38. 



