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America, and remarkable for the widened chisel-like apex of its 

 straight strong biU. It breeds in the reed-beds of the swamps, 

 and lays four eggs, pale blue spotted with black {cf. Hudson, 

 P.Z.S. 1870, p. 114). 



1, Amblyrhamphus holosericeus. 



Le Troupiale rouge, Sonn. Vol/. 2i. G. i. p. 113. 



Xanthornus holosericeus, Scop. Del. Faun, et Fl. Ins. ii. p. 88 (1786). 



Amblvrhamphus holosericeus, Hartl. Si/st. Ind. Az. p. 5 ; Cab. Mas. 



Hem. i.p. 190; Scl. Cat. A. B.-p. 137 ; /(/. Ibis, 1884, p. 18; Scl.et 



Sale. P. Z. S. 1869, pp. 161, 632 (Buenos Ayres) ; iid. Nomencl. 



p. 37 : Hudson, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 114 ; Bwnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 174 



(Buenos Ayres) ; Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 18 (Buenos Ayres) : W/iife, 



P. Z. S. 188-2, p. 602 (Buenos Ajves). 

 SturneUa holosericea, Cass. Pi: Ac. Sc. Phil. 1866, p. 25. 

 Oriolus ruber, Gm. S. N. i. p. .388 ; Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 179. 

 Tordo negro cabeza roxa, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 316. 

 Agelaius ruber, Vieill. N. D. xxxW. p. 553. 

 Sturnella rubra, Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 635. 

 Amblyi-amphus bicolor, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 82, pi. 36; d'Orb. et 



Lafr. Si/n. ii. p. 8. 

 Sturniis pyrrhocephalus, Lichi. Donbl. p. 18. 

 Amblyrhamphus ruber, Bp. Consj?. i. p. 429 ; Burm. Si/st. Ueb. iii. 



p. 263 ; id. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 491 ; Banc. Zool. Voy. ' Bea(/!e,' 



iii. p. 109. 

 Japus rubricapillus, Merrc^n, Ersch u. Grub. Enc. sy. p. 281. 



Black ; whole head and neck all round and upper breast and thighs 

 scarlet; biU and feet black: whole length 9-5 inches, wing 4*5, 

 tail 4. Female similar. Yoimr/ uniform blackish. 



Hab. Paraguay, Argentine Republic, and Uruguaj'. 



a. c? ad. st. S. America. Laugier Coll. 



b. S .ii'- St. S. America. Purchased. 



e, d. S 2 ad. sk. Uruguay. A. Peel [C.]. 



e. S jr. sk. Paysanclu, Uruguay. A. Peel [C.]. 



/, g. (S ad. et jr. sk. Vicinity of Buenos Ayres Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(^Haslehurst). 



h. 2 ad. sk. Couchitas, Buenos Ayi-es Sclater Coll. 



{Hudson^. 



i,j. S 2 ad. sk. Argentine Republic. Sclater Coll. 



k,l. c? 2 ^^- sk. Argentine Republic. Zool. Soc. Coll. 



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Type. 

 Pseudoleistes, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 137 (1862) P. guirahiu'o. 



Southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the Argentine Republic 

 are the home of the two nearly allied species of Pseudoleistes, 

 distinguished by their rather lengthened sharp-pointed bill and 

 flattened mesorhinium. 



Pseudoleistes nests in reed-beds like most of the Agelcei, and lays 

 white eggs spotted with purplish red (cf. Durnford, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 59). 



