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forehead red, growing paler backwards, changing into brown at the 

 nape, and all the feathers, except those of the forehead, are dusky in 

 the middle ; sides of the head nearly white, and behind the eye a 

 brown streak ; throat white, bordered by a streak of black and 

 white mixed ; taking rise from each corner of the mouth ; under- 

 neath the neck and body mixed brown and whitish ; wings beneath 

 silvery, with a bright tinge of red ; upper parts of the neck and 

 body, lesser wing coverts, and quills, light brown ; greater ones 

 reddish ; tail cuneiform, the outer feathers fifteen lines shorter than 

 the middle, the others paler red ; all but the two middle tail feathers 

 dusky, the others edged with brown, and a white spot at the tip ; 

 all the feathers pointed ; legs olive. 



Inhabits South America ; called by the Guaranis Annumbi and. 

 Guira Annumbi, % and is not uncommon ; feeds on insects, and 

 probably small seeds ; keeps in thick hedges, also in open spots ; 

 makes the nest on a decayed tree, or single Opuntia ; sometimes 

 several nests on the same tree, one touching the other ; likewise on 

 the posts of enclosures, on the trellises, and arbours of the country 

 houses ; the male and female always together, and both unite in 

 making the nest and feeding the young; the nest very large, often 

 two feet deep, and one and a half in diameter, made of spinous twigs, 

 and of a thickness scarcely to be thought the work of such weak 

 fabricators : the nest has a great cover at the top, and the bottom lined 

 with leaves and down ; the eggs are four in number, and white : the 

 note much resembles that of our Bunting. Both sexes much alike. 



165— PERUVIAN FLYCATCHER— Pl. cii. 



Le Colon, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 180. 



LENGTH, from the bill to the end of the general feathers of the 

 tail, five inches, but to that of the additional ones, eight inches and 



* The Motmot is called Guiia Guiannumbi. 



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