266 Mr. Charles Chubb on the 



Sapucay the presence of the bird is at once made known by 

 the enormous excavations, which often measure four feet 

 across, as if a bull in its rage had ploughed up the ground. 

 The entrance is funnel-shaped, and narrows to some six 

 inches in width, and thence has a depth of about eighteen 

 inches, the eggs being laid at the bottom. — W. F.~\ 



42. PODAGER NACUNDA. 



Ibiyau nacundd Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 544. no. cccxii. 

 (1805). 



Caprimulgus nacunda Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. x. 

 p. 240 (1817) ; Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 20 (1847). 



Podager nacunda Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 19 (Lambare) ; 

 Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 619 (1892) ; Oates, Cat. 

 Eggs Brit. Mus. iii. p. 58 (1903) ; Ihering, Revista Mus. 

 Paulista, vi. p. 332. 



a. Ad. Sapucay. 



Bill black ; tarsi and feet dirty horn-coloured ; iris golden 

 yellow. 



One egg obtained at Sapucay, October 3, 1903, is 

 pinkish cream-coloured, mottled with reddish brown and 

 underlying spots of lavender-grey. It measures : Axis 1*35 

 inches ; diameter l - 05. 



Two eggs collected at Sapucay, October 14, 1903, are 

 cream-coloured, mottled with brown in greater contrast. 

 Axis 1-35 to 1*45 inches; diameter - 9 to 095. 



Two eggs procured at Sapucay, October 13, 1903, are 

 pinkish cream-coloured, heavily blotched with brown. Axis 

 145 inches; diameter 10. 



[A rare bird throughout Central Paraguay. I have only 

 met with two specimens in eight years, but 1 know of 

 another which was shot at Asuncion. 



Occasionally at night it will perch upon some of the tall 

 trees in the forest and give utterance to its peculiar cry, 

 almost like a human cry of pain, gradually falling and dying 

 away into silence. 



The common Guarani name for the bird is " Guaimigue," 

 which in Spanish means " que fue vieja," — an old woman 



