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where I several times heard its cry, and once or twice flushed it. Its 



flight, however, though strong, is short, the bird soon settling again ; and 



the country is so thickly covered with brushwood and undergrowth that 



it is, in consequence, no easy matter to shoot these birds, at least without 



the aid of dogs. Sometimes they are stalked and shot by the Brazilian 



sportsmen ; but more usually they are snared. At Garanhuns I bought Ibis, 1881, 



a lot of seventeen Nambus and a pair of the next species for 2500 reis p ' 36 ' 



(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. CRYPTUKTJS NOCTIYAGTJS. 



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

 specimens at Graranhuns, which had been caught in the district round. 

 One of these that died, and which I preserved in spirit, Mr. Salvin has 

 identified with the above-named species. 



115. EHYNCHOTUS EUFESCENS. 



I saw one or two living birds of this species in confinement at 

 Garanhuns, and was informed that it too occurred in that neighbourhood. 



116. EHEA 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 Ehea 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 stuffed Eheas, 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 was fortunate enough to come j^ 1881 

 across a living specimen of this bird, brought along with a Cariama and p. 361. ' 

 two Herpetoiheres cachinnans, from Aguas Bellas, where it had been 

 captured young by the Indians. This bird was not yet adult, though 



