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call it Andurinha do mato, or Wood-Swallow. The resemblance is greatest when the bird sits 

 upon the ground ; for its feet are little adapted for walking, and it consequently shuffles along 

 as a Swallow does under siftiilar circumstances. 



" Its flight is light and undulating. Sitting upon a high point where it can overlook the 

 neighbourhood, it often emits a short call-note. 



" It is any thing but timid, and very easy to shoot. It is usually found where the woods 

 are varied with open country, on the edges of the woods, but likewise in the interior of them. 

 The food of these birds consists of insects, of which I have found the remains in their stomachs. 

 On the Rio Grande del Belmonte I observed how these birds nest. In the month of August I 

 saw them enter a round hole in a perpendicular sandbank on the river, like a Kingfisher's. 

 After digging about two feet in a horizontal direction, we found two milk-white eggs upon a 

 slight lining of a few feathers." 



Professor Burmeister, who likewise found this bird a common species in the Brazilian 

 wood-region, tells us that the stomach is thick-walled and fleshy, with an inner leathery lining, 

 and that the cseca are long. In the stomach he found, amongst other insects, ants and a large 

 bug {Anisosceles). 



The following is a list of the skins of Chelidoiptera brasiliensis in my collection and that of 

 Messrs. Salvin and Godman : — 



No. Sex. Mus. Patria. Long, tota, alae, cand®, rostri. 



1. 



— P. L. S. 



S.E. Brazil. 



7-6 



4-5 



2-3 



1-0 



2. 



— P.L. S. 



S.E. Brazil. 



6-4 



4-4 



2-4 



0-95 



3. 



— P.L. S. 



Pernambuco (Forbes). 



6-3 



4-2 



2-2 



0-9 



4. 



— S.-G. 



Bahia [Wucherer). 



5-8 



4-3 



2-3 



0-95 



5. — S.-G. Minas Geraes(i?o^ers). 7'2 45 2-4 1-0 



The figure (Plate LV. fig. 2) is taken from No. 1. 



