Birds of Paraguay. 605 



b. S ad. Sapucay, April 30, 1904. 



Bill light horn-coloured above, cream-coloured below. 



c. ? ad. Sapucaj, June 10, 1904. 



Bill dark horn-coloured, lower mandible slate-coloured ; 

 iris brown. 



d. e. <$ ? ad. Sapucay, July 31, 1904. 



Bill slate-coloured, the extreme tip blackish ; feet slaty- 

 blue ; iris light brown. 



/. $ ad. Sapucay, August 29, 1904. 



Bill and feet slate-coloured ; iris reddish brown. 



cj. ? ad. Sapucay, September 12, 1904. 



Bill blackish above, lower mandible slate-coloured; feet 

 slate-coloured ; iris brown. 



Three eggs, collected on October 12, 1903, are lilac-brown 

 with darker brown markings, which are confluent at the 

 larger end, and measure : axis 0'8 inch ; diameter 0*6. 



[This species is resident and not uncommon in the woods 

 at Sapucay. I have met with it during most months of 

 the year ; it favours the clearer part and the edges of the 

 forests. I have found it, occasionally, in the open. — W. F.~\ 



170. Pachvrhamphus polychroptertjs. 



Platyrhynchos polychropterus Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 xxvii. p. 10 (1818). 



Pachyrhamphus polychropterus Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xiv. p. 345 ; Ihering, Revista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 327 

 (Paraguay) ; Richmond, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 600 

 (1908). 



Climacocercus cyanocephalus Bertoni, Aves Nuev. Para- 

 guay, p. 112. 



Pachyrhynchus polychropterus Hellmayr, Abhandl. Akad. 

 Wiss. Miinchen, xxii. p. 666. 



a. ? ad. Sapucay, October 17, 1902. 



b. <J ad. „ February 27, 1904. 



Bill black, lower mandible dark slate-coloured ; feet black ; 

 iris brown. 



c. d. ? ad. Sapucay, March 1904. 



One of the female specimens is in worn plumage and shews 

 a good deal of grey, with streaks of yellowish, on the under 



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