360 Mr. W. A. Forbes on Eleven Weeks 



are snared. At Garauhuns I bought a lot of seventeen 

 Nambus and a pair of the next species for 2500 reis (about 

 five shillings) — not a bad bargain perhaps ! — from a boy who 

 had just caught them; and afterwards I had many more 

 offered to me for sale. 



The beak is vermilion-red^ the feet dirty pink-red^ and the 

 irides rich red-brown. 



114. Crypttjrus noctivagus. 



This Tinaraou is known as the "Zabille;" of it, too, I got 

 living specimens at Garanhuns, which had been caught in the 

 district round. One of these that died, and which I pi-e- 

 served in spirit, Mr. Salvin has identified with the above- 

 named species. 



115. Rhynchotus rufescens. 



I saw one or two living birds of this species in confine- 

 ment at Garanhuns, and was informed that it too occurred 

 in that neighbourhood. 



116. Rhea macrorhyncha. 



Rhea macrorhyncha was originally described by Mr. Sclater 

 some twenty years ago (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 207, & Trans. Z. S. 

 iv. p. 356, pi. Ixix.), from a specimen living in the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens, of unknown origin. Since then several 

 more specimens (some half dozen in all, perhaps) have been 

 secured at intervals ; but the exact locality of any of these 

 has never, I believe, been precisely ascertained, though it has 

 been supposed to be the " campos " of Northern Brazil or 

 Guiana {cf. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 160). 



When I arrived in Pernambuco I made anxious inquiries 

 about the existence of any Rhea in that part of Brazil, and was 

 told by several persons that it existed in the interior, in the dry 

 and open Sertoes ; and the dry country near the falls on the S. 

 Francisco river was especially mentioned as a locality where 

 it was to be found abundantly. In the small museum in the 

 " Gymnasium, '^ I found two stufled Rheas, one adult, and 

 one in the tawny-brown plumage of immaturity, which, as 

 far as I could see, were probably R. macrorhyncha ; these 

 were said to have come from the Sertoes. At Garanhuns I 



