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tinually uttering its loud, somewhat plaintive, but screaming 

 cry, ben-ti-vi, ben-ti-vi, &c. Frequently two may be seen 

 together, but they are not at all gregarious in their habits. 

 Where these birds are common, as in most gardens in the 

 neighbourhood of houses, the ear soon gets to recognize their 

 continued ben-ti-vis as a pleasant evidence of the Neotropical 

 fauna. The flight is weak and undulating and never long 

 sustained. 



55. HiRUNDINEA BELLICOSA. 



The first specimen of this curiously coloured Tyrant I saw 

 was just after landing at Parahyba, where it was perched on 

 the roof of one of the houses close to the river. Subsequently 

 I saw it again several times, both there and at Quipapa, in 

 similar positions, but being always in the towns, and on 

 houses, or, more frequently, churches, I was unable to get a 

 shot at one, for fear of consequences in the shape of a " row " 

 with the police or other authorities. From its post of vantage 

 it flies ofli" after passing insects, and after capturing them 

 returns to its former perch, in the manner of other Tyrannidce. 

 I was rather surprised to meet a pair of the same birds a few 

 days afterwards at Macuca, both of which I got. They were 

 met with in capoeira, a long way from any houses, perching 

 in the larger trees which rose above the thick scrub and 

 Dushes below. 

 / Eyes brown. 



56. Myiobius N^vius. 



I shot a single specimen o£ this Tyrant in a patch of high 

 forest near Macuca. 

 Eyes straw-yellow. 



67, Myiochanes cinekeus. 



I only got this species twice, in the high trees of the forest 

 near Quipapa and at Macuca. It appears to be solitary in 

 its habits. 

 / Irides brown; feet black ; upper mandible blackishbroAvn, 

 lower one pale orange. 



-p58. Myiarchus tyrannulus. 



I first met with this bird near Quipapa, and afterwards 



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