68 Mr. Charles Chubb on the 



its habits make it difficult to shoot. Its flight when flushed 

 is only for a few yards, and nothing will again induce it to 

 rise, the high tangled grass affording ample cover. 

 In this district it is a rare bird. — W. F] 



19. GALLINAGO PARAGUAY^. 



Becasina prima Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 271 . no. ccclxxxvii. 

 (1805). 



Scolopax paraguay a Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iii. 

 p. 356 (1816). 



Gallinago paraguayce. Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 36 

 (Pilcomayo) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 650; 

 Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 63; Ihering, Revista 

 Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 343. 



a. $ ad. Ybytimi, February 3, 1904. 



Three clutches of the eggs of this species were sent. They 

 were collected during the months of October, November, 

 and January. The ground-colour is olive, blotched and 

 marbled with blackish to dark umber-brown, with pale under- 

 lying spots of purple. The blotches cluster at the larger 

 end. The measurements are: axis 1*55 to 1"6 inches; 

 diameter 1*1 to 12. 



[Resident and fairly common through the country, 

 although, compared with the Argentine, it is rare ; but, 

 generally speaking, specimens can always be met with 

 along the water-courses and small swamps which are found 

 within every few hundred yards here. — //'. F] 



20. Parra jacana. 



Parra jacana Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 259 (1766) ; Berl. 

 J. f. O. 1887, p. 35 (Pilcomayo) ; Ihering, Revista Mus. 

 Paulista, vi. p. 343. 



Jacana jacana Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 82 

 (1896). 



a. d iram. Ybytimi, February 5, 1904. 



Bill of a greenish horn-colour ; tarsi and feet greyish 

 green ; iris olive-yellow. 



