78 Mr. S. A. Neave on the Birds of 



35. Ghucidium brasiliandm. 



Strix brasiliana Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 289 (1788). 



Carbue Azara, Apunt. i. p. 225. no. xlix. (1802). 



StrLv ferox Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vii. p. 22 (1817, 

 ex Azara). 



Glaucidium ferox Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 200; 

 Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 122 (Paraguay). 



Glaucidium brasilianum Berlepsch, Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 8 

 (1901) ; Ihering, Kevista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 337. 



Glaucidium brasiliense Berlepsch, t. c. p. 8. 



Glaucidium ferox rufus Bertoni, Aves Nuev. Paraguay, 

 p. 179 (1901); Ihering, I.e. 



a, b. J ad. Sapucay, April and May 1903. 



Bill and claws .yellow ; iris golden. Shot in raoute 

 during the day. 



c. $ ; d, e. ? ad. Sapucay, April and June 1904. 



The male birds are darker and smaller, while the females 

 are larger and more inclined to rufous in colour. 



[This species is resident and by no means uncommon 

 throughout the wooded districts of Central Paraguay. It 

 is often to be met with tame in the native houses, and 

 makes a pleasant little pet when young, but invariably 

 makes for the forest when adult. Of course this is easy 

 enough, as none of the houses are many yards distant from 

 some wood. Although it is not rare I have never met with 

 its nest, and know nothing whatever about its breeding- 

 habits.— W. F.] 



[To be continued.] 



IV. — On the Birds of Northern Rhodesia and the Katanga 

 District of Congoland. By S. A. Neave, M.A., B.Se., 

 F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



(Plates I. & II., and Text-fig. 2.) 



The following paper deals chiefly with the birds that I 

 collected during my second expedition in the years 1907 

 and 1908; the former year (1907) having been spent in 

 Katanga, and the latter (1908) mainly in the more northern 



