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particularly in the morning, on the telegraph-wires of the railway 

 opposite Mr. Hood's house ; I also saw it at Parahyba and Graranhuns, 

 perched on the roofs and eaves of the churches, and therefore not to be 

 shot at with impunity. In Recife, on the other hand, I never saw it at Ibis, 1881, 

 all, though the last species, as already mentioned, abounded there. 



10. STELGIDOPTEETX RUFICOLLIS. 



This Swallow I found common in numerous places from Recife and 

 Parahyba on the coast inland as far as Macuca. It perches freely, and 

 may be often seen along the roads and railway, where there are cuttings 



Eyes brown. 



11. DACKES CAYANA. 



I only rarely met with this species, once near Caxanga, and another 

 time near Eecife, where I came across a small flock of three or four in 

 an old, overgrown garden some two miles from Estancia ; of these only 

 one was a full-plumaged male. I also saw one or two near Parahyba. 



Irides red-brown ; beak blackish brown, with the base of the mandible 

 fleshy ; legs fleshy, the claws greyer. 



12. DACNIS PLTJMBEA. 



I only met with this bird in the garden at Estancia, and there only 

 saw it a few times. It hops about the trees and bushes in a systematic 

 sort of way, going from leaf to leaf in search of small insects and other 

 food, which it picks up off the leaves. I did not observe any full- 

 plumaged male. 



Eyes (in the female) greyish brown ; legs dirty flesh-coloured ; beak 

 pale fleshy, with the culmen broadly darker, horny black. 



13. C(EEEBA CYANEA. 



Only once did I come across this bird a single specimen in immature 

 plumage that I saw in the garden at Estancia. 



14. CEETHIOLA CHLOEOPYGA. 



This little bird is one of the very commonest in those parts of Brazil I 

 was in, being most abundant in all the gardens near Eecife, and almost 

 equally so elsewhere in the neighbourhood of houses, though sometimes 

 seen in the wilder parts. It assiduously visits all the shrubs that may 

 happen to be in flower in any particular spot, collecting from the 

 blossoms its meal of insects, mixed, no doubt, with the nectar of the Ibis > 1881 i 

 flowers. It has a weak, though rather pleasing, song of a few notes, P< 

 the last note being considerably more powerful than those that precede 



