Birds of Paraguay. 
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Total length 8*3 inches ; cnlmen 0‘8; wing 5 '7; tail 2*5. 
The species was only known previously by the type (with 
which this specimen has been compared) described by 
Dr. Bowdler Sharpe {cf. supra) as from Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
Dr. Ihering, however, has written to say that the type 
specimen came from S. Lourenzo, Rio Grande do Sul 
(‘Ibis/ 1900, p. 217). 
This bird is new to the avifauna of Paraguay. 
34. Speotyto grallaria. 
Strioc cunicularia (nee Linn.), Molina, Sagg. St. Nat. Chii. 
p. 343 (1782). 
Urucurea Azara, Apunt. i. p. 214, no. xlvii. (1802). 
Stria grallaria Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 146 (1822). 
Athene cunicularia Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 4 H847). 
Speotyto cunicularia Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 142; 
Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 122 (Paraguay) ; Xhering, 
Revista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 336. 
Speotyto cunicularia grallaria Hellmayr, Abhandl. Akad. 
Miinchen, xxii. p. 574 (1906). 
a. $ ad. Sapucay, May 25, 1903. 
Bill and claws greenish yellow. 
This specimen has an admixture of rufous streaks on 
the head and back of neck, and a rufous wash on the 
abdomen. 
h. $ ad. Sapucay, June 5, 1904. 
Iris yellow. 
This example is much paler both on the upper and under 
surface, and shews no trace of rufous such as is observed 
in the female. The feathers are much worn and abraded. 
[Resident and widely distributed throughout Paraguay, 
but nowhere common. The favourite post of observation is 
the top of one of the ant-hills which are to be met with 
everywhere. I have never observed it in the forests; and 
in wooded districts it is only seen occasionally, the 
conditions being very different when the ground is entirely 
concealed from sight by the rank vegetation which forms 
a curtain many feet thick.— W. F.~\ 
