Birds of Paraguay. 633 



Adult female. General colour of the upper parts brown, 

 somewhat paler on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing- 

 coverts blackish with rufous margins ; quills and tail-feathers 

 blackish brown; entire under surface rufous brown, some- 

 what paler on the throat and middle of abdomen ; bill 

 blackish above, pinkish grey below; tarsi and feet very dark 

 brown ; iris brown. Total length 5*6 inches, culrncn 045, 

 wing 2 - 75, tail 2*4, tarsus - 8. 



[This species, like G. cyanea, I have met with during the 

 months May to September. Its habits are also similar, so 

 far as I know at present, and the same remarks about the 

 plumage apply to this bird. — W. F.] 



213. Sporophila melanocephala. 



Pico grueso cejita blanca Azara, Apunt. i. p. 448 no. exxiv. 

 (180.2). 



Coccothraustes melanocephala Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 

 xiii. p. 542 (1817: Paraguay). 



Spermophila melanocephala Sliarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. 

 p. 118 ; Graham Kerr, Ibis, 1892, p. 125 (Fortin Page). 



Sporophila melanocephala melanocephala Hellmayr, Verh. 

 zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1904, p. 533. 



Sporophila melanocephala Ihering, Revista Mus. Paulista, 

 vi. p. 321 (Paraguay). 



a. $ ad. Sapucay, June 11, 1904. 



Bill and feet dark horn-coloured ; iris brown. 



h, c. ? ad. Sapucay, August 1904. 



Bill and feet dark vandyke-brown. 



d. ^ ad. Sapucay, September 6, 1904. 



Bill blackish brown ; iris brown. 



The female is distinguished from the male chiefly by the 

 absence of the black on the head, sides of face, and collar 

 on the fore-neck, also by the absence of the rufous collar 

 on the hind-neck. Total length 4'9 inches, culmen 0'4, 

 wing 235, tail 2"1, tarsus 0*65. 



[A very rare bird with us, although I have seen one in a 

 cage at Asuncion. It had been caught in the Chaco close to 

 Asuncion, and was offered for sale in the market there. It 



