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numbers we then saw were nothing to what there had been previously, 

 before the greater part had gone more inland towards the Sertoes, as they 

 do towards the commencement of the dry season. The Brazilians call it 

 " Perriquito Tapacu." 

 Eyes brown. 



90. STEIX FLAMMEA. 



Whilst staying at Quipapa a boy brought me a specimen of a Barn- 

 Owl, which, as far as I could see, differed in no important respect from 

 English specimens. 



91. GAMPSONYX SWAINSONI. 



I shot a single specimen of this pretty little Hawk out of a high tree 

 near Parahyba. 



Irides red ; feet orange-yellow ; beak and claws black. 



92. HEKPETOTHEKES CACHINNANS. 



Whilst staying at Garanhuns I bought a beautiful pair of living 

 specimens of this Hawk, which had come, with some other birds, from 

 Ibis, 1881, Aguas Bellas, a village in the Sertoes, some seventy miles beyond 

 p. 354. GJ-aranhuns. Unfortunately they succumbed to the jolting and heat of 

 the journey down to Palmares, dying the day before we reached Eecife. 

 The Brazilians considered it a rare bird, and called it " Couao." As 

 noticed by Burmeister (Thiere Bras. ii. p. 92), these birds, after a good 

 meal, showed a naked " craw " protruding through the breast-feathers. 

 Irides dark brown. 



93. POLYBORTJS THARUS. 



The " Cara-cara " I saw several times on the coast, both near Eecife 

 and around Parahyba. In the interior I did not identify it. On the 

 wing it has a decidedly fine appearance. 



94. CATHARTES ATOA. 



The Eed-headed " Urubu " is never, as far as I saw, to be met with in 

 towns, though it was by no means rare in the country. I first saw it at 

 Goyanna, and afterwards met with it plentifully at Parahyba and near 

 Cabo. It is usually seen singly or in pairs ; but on one occasion, at an 

 " engenho " near Cabo, I saw a considerable number, perhaps twenty, of 

 it together. The Brazilians, as a rule, did not distinguish between 

 G. aura and C. atratus. Gypagus papa, however (a species I did not 

 meet with, though it occurs sometimes not far from Eecife), is well 

 known to them as the " Urubu Ee," or King Urubu. 



95.CATHARTES ATBATUS. 



The " Urubu " is one of the first birds to attract the stranger's eye on 



