1SS4. 1 I>.\RU()\vs on Hi ids of lliv Lt>-,ccr Unti>U(iy. 20 



Parrots or PanKjucts in a sort ot" pocket in a sand hank some ten 

 miles south of the town. Akhough 1 waited patiently- for some 

 time in iiopcs of securing- ihe ])arents, I saw nothing- of tliem, and 

 on returning- a fe\v days hiter the nest was empt\ . 



The hist week in May, 1S80, ahout a hunthx'd Parcjquets Hew 

 o\er the town one morning-, and ahliough I noticed notliins:^ unu- 

 sual in their appearance I was told during the day, hy two differ- 

 ent persons, that these belonged to still another species, well 

 known. Init of late years not so ccHiimon as foimerlv. 



132. Aluco flammeus (Z/yz«.). Lechuzon (Rig Owl). — 

 Resident; abundant; breeds in lofts of old buildings, etc. A pair 

 had a nest in the belfry of the "Cathedral," and another pair in 

 an old tower formerly used as a mill. Their harsh screeches rang 

 through the deserted corridors of the college every night, that 

 being one of their faxorite hunting grounds for bats. 



123. Asio accipitrinus {PalL). Lechuzon (apparently not 

 distinguished from the preceding by the natives). — Not uncom- 

 mon in winter, sitting among the long grass during most of the 

 day but beginning to hunt at sunset, or sometimes earlier. I start- 

 ed four or five in a field back of a farm house, Max' 21, 1S80, and 

 on June iS, saw half a dozen or more just before simset, sweeping 

 about like Harriers over the fields near town. I saw none after 

 August iS. 



124. Bubo virginianus (Gm.). Buho (Owl) and Nakoo- 

 ROO-TOO (the Indian name, referring, of course, to the hoot of the 

 Owl). — Said to be not unxommon in the deeper swamps along the 

 river as well as in the drier forests further back. 



I met with it only once, — at the camp on the Arrovo de 

 Gualeguaychu. Here a pair or two were within hearing ever}- 

 night and I dropped one just at dusk, but it unfortunately fell on 

 the other side of the stream in a jungle which I was not prepared 

 to search bv moonlight. Mounted specimens in the museum at 

 Buenos Aires, labelled Bubo crassirostris were undoubtedly the 

 same thing. 



125. Scops brasilianus {G/?/.). Cabure. (Name unexplain- 

 ed ; it is also applied to a much smaller 0^vl. probably Glauci- 

 dium^ which I did not see.) — A common resident along all the 

 wooded water-courses, and of course breeds, but I did not find 

 the nest. It has a soft, tremulous cry not unlike that oi asio^ and, 

 as in that species, there are two varieties of color, red and gray. 



