626 Mr. Charles Chubb on the 



Lindo saihobi Azara, Apunt. i. p. 370. no. xcii. (1802). 



«,£.(?? ad. Sapucay, April 1903-04. 



$ . Bill horn-coloured above, slate-coloured below ; feet 

 bluish slate-coloured ; iris brown. [Shot in a banana 

 plantation.] 



c. S ad. Sapucay, July 31, 1904. 



Three eggs, collected on October 8, 1903, are greenish 

 white in colour, heavily blotched with brown and with smaller 

 markings of pale lilac. Axis 0'9-l*0 inch; diameter 0*65. 



Two eggs, obtained on November 7, 1902, are similar in 

 colour, but not so heavily blotched. Axis 08-1 *0 inch; 

 diameter 0'65. 



Mr. Foster was very strongly of opinion that the specimens 

 enumerated below belonged to a different species from 

 T. sayaca, as he found that both forms bred in the same 

 district. It may be, of course, that the bird does not put 

 on the full-plumaged dress until the second year, which 

 ■would account lor its breeding in the so-called immature 

 plumage. 



a. <$ imm. Ybytimi, January 31, 1904. 



b. ? imm. Sapucay, March 30, 1904. 



c. d. ? ad. „ April 18, 20, 1904. 

 e. S ad. „ May 8, 1904. 



/. ? ad. „ June 21, 1904. 



g. ? ad. „ August 30, 1904. 



[This bird is resident and generally distributed. Nest 

 firmly constructed of moss and twigs lined with fine grass. 

 Three eggs form a clutch. I am of opinion that the birds 

 pair for life, as the same nesting-place is used year after year ; 

 a solitary tree is selected when possible ; one brood only is 

 re?red in a season. — W. F.] 



203. Phohnicothraupis rubica. 



Habia roxiza Azara, Apunt. i. p. 351. no. lxxxv. (1802). 



Saltator rubicus Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 107 

 (1817 : Paraguay.) 



Phcenicothraupis rubica Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xi. 

 p. 196; Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 115 (Paraguay); 



