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Herr H. vou Ihering — Ornithological 



III. — Ornithological Notes from South Brazil. 

 By H. VON Ihering. 



In the fourth volume of the ' Revista ' of the ' Museu 

 Paulista ' lately published will be found some ornithological 

 papers, concerning which I propose to offer a few additional 

 notes. 



The " Descripcao de Ninhos e Ovos das Aves do Brasil/' by 

 Carlos Euler, is a revised and corrected translation of his 

 various papers published in the ' Journal fiir Ornithologie ' 

 from 1862 to 1868. Mr. Euler's observations are certainly 

 amongst the best that have ever been made in Brazil on the 

 life-habits of birds. As the original papers are without any 

 index, and as the nomenclature used is in some cases not 

 easy to understand, and in other cases inexact, this new and 

 revised edition will be useful not only to Brazilian naturalists, 

 but, I hope, to ornithologists elsewhere. 



As an " Appendix " to this paper of Herr Euler I have 

 published in the same Journal a list of all the species of birds 

 hitherto observed in the mountainous interior of the State of 

 Rio de Janeiro, especially at Cantagallo and Nova Friburgo. 

 Since I published this list I have received the second 

 part of Dr. E. Goeldi's ' As Aves do BrasiP (Rio de Janeiro, 

 1900). I have therefore studied this book with the intention 

 of completing my list by adding to it the names of the 

 species observed by Dr. Goeldi in the Colonia Alpina, 

 Theresiopolis, and not included in my List. These are : — 



Oi'tliogonys viridis {Spiir). 

 Sperinopbila gutturalis (Licht.). 

 Chi'TSomitris icterica {Licht.). 

 Cassidix oryzivora (Gmel.). 

 Cnipolegus comatus {Licht.). 

 Pseudotriccus diops (Temm.). 

 Phyllomj'ias burmeisteri {Cab.). 

 Ornithion obsoletum {Temm.). 

 Empidouomus varius ( Vieill.). 



Furnarius rufus (Gm.). 

 Lathi'iii pliuubea {Licht.). 

 Caprimulgus ocellatus {Tsch.), 

 Nj'ctibius jamaicensis {Gm.). 

 Oolaptes campestris {Gm.). 

 Picumnus temmincki (Lafr.). 

 Ara nobilis {Linn.). 

 Rostrliauius sociabilis ( Vieill.). 



I have not accepted Arremon silens, because the bird thus 

 termed by Goeldi seems to he A. semiturquatus (observed 



