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344 Mr. W. A. Forbes on Eleven Weeks 



obtained several specimens between there and Garanbuns. 

 It is a quiet solitary bird, which usually I met with perched 

 on the sides of paths or tracts through the brushwood, and 

 was not shy. 

 Irides brown. 



59. Tyrann s melancholicus. 



This is nearly as common as Pitangus sulphuratus or Myio- 

 zetetes affinis, and occurred at every place I collected in. It 

 is solitary, and in its habits does not materially diflfer from 

 those species, though it is perhaps less frequently found near 

 houses, resorting more to the open country, and being often 

 seen in large fields where there are few or no trees. It then 

 selects a stone, post, or some small shrub for its perch. It 

 is a quiet bird, unlike the Pitangus. Brazilians and strangers 

 alike confound all these yellow-breasted Tyrant-birds under 

 the common appellation of " Bentivi.^' 



60. PiPRA RUBRICAPILLA. 



I first met with this bird in the outskirts of the forest near 

 Caxanga, where I obtained a pair of specimens and saw 

 others. I also afterwards saw what I believe to have been a 

 young male (just acquiring the red colour of the head) in 

 some scrubby forest between Recife and Beberibe, but not 

 having a gun at the time, could not get it. My experience 

 of this Pipra was that it was nearly always found in the 

 thickest and most dark parts of the forest, where no other 

 birds were to be seen or heard. They feed, I think, on 

 berries. 



The irides (of the male at least) are pale yellowish white, 

 in the female or young bird they are darker, 



61. Chiroxiphia pareola. 



I shot a single male specimen of this bird, the only one I 

 saw, in some thick and dense forest near Parahyba. 



-j- 62. Pachyrhamphus atricapillus. 



I obtained a single female specimen of this bird from a 

 small boy at Macuca, Avho had shot it with an eartheru pellet 

 discharged from a bow — a style of shooting much indulged in 



