BIRDS. 
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2. Pachyramphus minimus. 
Pachyrhynchus minimus, Gould , MS. 
Plate XY. 
P. rufo brunneus ; capite guttureque brunneo-nigris ; plumarum basibus albis ; alls 
cauddque brunneis, plumis jlavescenti-albo marginatis; colli lateribus, fascia 
pectorali hypochondriisque fulvis ; jugalo ventreque pallidb Jlavescenlibus. 
Long. tot. 3 t 7 2 ; alee, 1 -^-g- ; cauda , l-fe ; tarsi, - 3 ^ ; rost. 
Crown of the head, sides of the face and throat blackish brown, each feather 
white at the base; back of the neck black, and upper tail coverts rufous 
brown; wings and tail dark brown, each feather margined with sandy white ; 
sides of the neck, under surface of the shoulder, band across the chest and 
flanks reddish fawn colour ; lower part of the throat, and centre of the abdo- 
men very pale buff ; bill and feet blackish brown. 
Habitat, Monte Video, (November). 
Sub-Fam. — FLUVICOLINiE, Swain. 
Alecturus guirayetupa. Vieill. Diet. 
Muscicapa psalura, Temm., PL Col. t. 286 and 296. 
risoria, Vieill., Gal. des Ois. PI. 131. 
Yetapa psalura. Less., Tr. d’Orn. i. p. 387. 
Le Guirayetupa, Azara, No. 226. 
This bird is not uncommon on the open grassy country near Maldonado on the 
banks of the Plata. It sits generally on the top of a thistle ; from which it makes 
short flights and catches its prey in the air. The two long feathers in its tail 
appear quite useless to it. It sometimes feeds on the ground. In the stomach 
of one which I opened there was a spider ( Lycosa ), and some Coleoptera. 
1. Lichenops perspicillatus. G. R. Gray. 
Sylvia perspicillata, Gmel. 
CEnanthe perspicillata, Vieill. 
Ada Commersoni, Less. 
Perspicilla leucoptera, Swains., Nat. Libr. x. Flyc. p. 105, PI. 9. 
Fluviola perspicillata, D’Orb. Lafr ., Mag. deZool. 1837, p. 59. 
Le Clignot ou Lichenops, Comm., Sundev. 
Le Bee d’argent, Azara, No. 228. 
This bird belongs to the sub genus, Perspicilla, of Mr. Swainson ; but as Mr. 
