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The female is smaller; the head whitish, on the neck a rufous 

 half collar; beneath the body white, tinged with red on the flanks ; 

 back, rump, and lesser wing coverts, rufous brown ; the greater 

 deeper, bordered with red ; tail dusky, finely bordered with brown ; 

 the rest as in the male. 



Inhabits Paraguay. The word Guira yetapa in the Guaranis 

 language means Scissars-Bird, which they apply to all birds with 

 forked tails. More females than males are met with, in proportion of 

 eight or ten to one, and flocks of thirty sometimes seen without a 

 male ; hence, as in the Cock-tailed, it may be suspected to be in some 

 degree polygamous ; and even that there may be hermaphrodites, 

 since some have been observed with the tail on one side resembling 

 the male, on the other the female ; and such have less rufous than 

 the females, and less white than the males, having the middle tint 

 between the two sexes.* 



162— MUSTACHOE FLYCATCHER. 



Le Moustache, Voy. d' Azara, iii. No. 173. 

 Mustachoe Flycatcher, Share's Zool. x. 357. 



THIS bird is three inches and a half long ; extent five or more. 

 Bill very broad, and flat, somewhat in shape of a lancet, with the 

 point bent; the mouth large, at the corners several long hairs, five 

 inches long, arising by pairs, and in form of oars ; the colour of the 

 bill black, the under mandible gilded white; mouth yellow, eyes 

 large, irides brown ; a dusky streak, from the corners of the mouth, 

 passes on each side of it, and ends above the ear ; above this 

 another of brown, mixed with yellow, beginning at the nostril, and 

 ending on the ear ; throat whitish ; the rest of the under parts deep 

 yellow ; top of the head dusky brown ; the rest of the upper parts 

 paler brown, with a yellowish mixture, but the under webs of the 



* Azara. 



