BULLETIN 
OF THE 
NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
vol. viii. July, 1883. No. 3. 
BIRDS OF THE LOWER URUGUAY. 
BY WALTER B. BARROWS. 
(■ Continued from p. 94.') 
25. Paroaria cucullata ( 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 found in large 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. 
26. 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 ; 
