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Mr. Charles Chubb on the 
its habits make it difficult to shoot. Its flight when flushed 
is only for a few yards, and nothing will again induce it to 
rise, the high tangled grass affording ample cover. 
In this district it is a rare bird.— TV. F] 
19. GaLLINAGO PARAGUAY^. 
Becasina prima Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 271. no. ccclxxxvii. 
(1805). 
Scolopax paraguayce Vieili. N. Diet. d’Rist. Nat. iii. 
p. 356 (1816). 
Gallinago paraguayce Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 36 
(Piicomayo); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 650; 
Oates, Cat. Eggs Brit. Mus. ii. p. 63; Ihering, Revista 
Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 343. 
a. £ ad. Ybytimi, February 3, 1904. 
Three clutches of the eggs of this species were sent. They 
were collected, during the months of October, November, 
and January. The ground-colour is olive, blotched and 
marbled with blackish to dark umber-brown, with pale under¬ 
lying spots of purple. The blotches cluster at the larger 
end. The measurements are: axis 1*55 to 1*6 inches; 
diameter 11 to 1*2. 
[Resident and fairly common through the country, 
although, compared with the Argentine, it is rare; but, 
generally speaking, specimens can always be met with 
along the water-courses and small swamps which are found 
within every few hundred yards here. — W. F] 
20. Parra jacana. 
Parra jacana Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 259 (1766) ; Berk 
J. f. O. 1887, p. 35 (Piicomayo) ; Ihering, Revista Mus. 
Paulista, vi. p. 343. 
Jacana jacana Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 82 
(1896). 
a. imm. Ybytimi, February 5, 1904. 
Bill of a greenish horn-colour; tarsi and feet greyish 
green; iris olive-yellow. 
