194 DENDBOCOLAFTID^E. 



a foundation, and occasionally as many as three nests are seen thus on 

 the same branch-tip, two of them at least being occupied. When 

 other branches of the same tree are similarly loaded, and other trees 

 close at hand also bear the same kind of fruit, the result is very 

 picturesque. The eggs, which are white, are laid from October 1 to 

 January 1, but many of the birds work at nest-building all the winter, 

 sometimes spending months on a single nest." 



210. PHACELLODOMUS STRIATICOLLIS (d'Orb. et Lafr.X 

 (RED-WINGED THORN-BIRD.) 



Anumbius striaticollis, d'Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 255 (Buenos Ayres). Phacello- 

 domus striaticollis, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 65. 



Description. Above, forehead and crown rufous ; lores white ; sides of head, 

 neck, and back brown ; whole wing chestnut, the feathers tipped with blackish ; 

 tail chestnut; beneath white, clearer on the throat and breast, which are 

 marked with slight white shaft-spots ; sides of breast and flanks washed with 

 reddish brown ; under tail-coverts brown ; under wing-coverts cinnamon ; bill 

 and feet horn-colour: whole length 8-0 inches, wing 2'9, tail 3'1. Female 

 similar. 



Hab. Argentina and Uruguay. 



D'Orbigny, who discovered this species in Uruguay, and found it also 

 near Buenos Ayres, remarks that it lives in pairs in the thorny bushes, 

 and resembles its congeners in habits. It is, however, certainly not 

 common in the vicinity of the Argentine capital, for Hudson has never 

 met with it. 



211. PHACELLODOMUS RUBER (Vieill.). 

 (RED THORN-BIRD.) 



Phacellodomus ruber, Burm. La-Plata JReise, ii. p. 4C7 (Parana, Cordova) ; 

 Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 65 ; Durnford, Ibis, 1877, p. 183 (Buenos Ayres) ; 

 Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl. viii. p. 210 (Entrerios). Phacellodomus 

 maculipectus, Cab. J.f. O. 1883, p. 109(?). 



Description. Above olive-brown, front chestnut ; tail brownish chestnut ; 

 beneath whitish, throat, breast, and flanks washed and mottled with bright 

 reddish brown ; under wing-coverts and inner margins of wing-feathers bright 

 cinnamon ; bill and feet horn-colour : whole length 7'3 inches, wing 2-6, tail 

 3*2. Female similar. 



Hab. Argentina. 



This is a common species throughout the eastern portion of the 



