Mr Valglcish on Birds and Eggs from Paragvny. 73 



Nest in British Museum. Nest in New College. 



6. Knobs run irregularly in trans- 6. Knobs run regularly in ridges 

 verse ridges. which follow the edges of the combs. 



7. Entrances intricately twisted (to 7. Entrances direct, 

 prevent ingress of moths). 



8. Substance, dried dung. 8. Substance same as that of British 



wasps. 



9. The different "stories," or tiers, 9. The different "stories," or tiers, 

 of combs are attached to the common of comb are attached to the common 

 wall of the nest ; the entrances to the wall, the entrance to the compart- 

 compartments are at the sides, a ments being by one hole reaching 

 small irregular-shaped space being from the bottom to the top, and at 

 left between the comb and the wall one side only ; this entrance to the 

 of the nest. layers of comb is secured by the 



edges of the combs at the place not 

 being attached to the nest wall. 



In the vacant space thus left I found that a mason wasp 

 had formed its nest. Two pupa cases were in the cells, from 

 one of which the perfect form, shown in the small glass case, 

 was taken. The other was left unopened, and is also shown. 



X. Notes on a Collection of Birds and Eggs from the Be'puhlic 

 of Paraguay. By J. J. Dalgleish, Esq., M.B.O.U. 



(Read 20th March 1889.) 



The Proceedings of the Society contain some Notes ^ read 

 by me upon two former occasions, descriptive of a collection 

 of Birds and Eggs from Central Uruguay. My former 

 correspondent there having some time ago left that country 

 and settled in the neighbouring Republic of Paraguay, I am 

 now enabled to make a few similar Notes upon a small col- 

 lection lately received as a first instalment from that locality. 



Paraguay, one of the most thriving of the Spanish Ee- 

 publics of South America, is situated, as is well known, 

 between the river of that name and the River Parana, both 

 tributaries of the great Eiver Plate or Eio de la Elata. Eor 

 some years prior to 1870 it was much desolated by the 

 ravages of war, but is now fast recovering, and bids fair soon 

 to rival in comparative prosperity, and as a field for immi- 

 gration, its large and thriving neighbour, the Argentine 

 Confederation. 



1 Vol. vi., 232 ; vol. viii., 77. 



