BULLETIN 



OF THE 



NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



VOL. vin. July, 1883. No. 3. 



BIRDS OF THE LOWER URUGUAY. 



BY WALTER B. BARROWS. 

 (^Continued from p. 9^.) 



35. Paroaria cuciiUata {Lath.'). Cardinal Colorado 

 (Red Cardinal). — This is the bird familiar to many as a cage- 

 bird under the name of Brazilian Cardinal. It is said that the 

 market is mainly supplied by the netting of the birds in lower 

 Brazil and Paraguay. 



As they are commonly fotmd in lai'ge flocks, are quite unsus- 

 picious, and feed much on the ground, it would seem easy to 

 catch them in nets, but I have never seen it done. The sexes are 

 equally brilliant and not distinguishable by color, so I do not 

 know whether the females sing or not. The species is abundant 

 wherever any considerable extent of woods remains, and un- 

 doubtedly it nests near Concepcion, but I did not have proof 

 of it further than that implied in the presence of the birds in 

 undiminished numbers through the warm weather. 



36. Poospiza nigrorufa {Lafr. et d'Orb.). — One of the 

 commoner Finches of the country, abundant everywhere in 

 wet, bushy ground, and often seen scratching among the leaves 

 like a Chewink {Pipilo) . Its cheery and often repeated little 

 song is so constantly heard that one hardly notices it more than 

 the droning of the cicadas or the chirping of the grasshoppers ; 



