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Mr. S. A. Neave on the Birds of 
35. Glaucidium brasilianum. 
Strive brasiliana Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 289 (1788). 
Carbue Azara, Apunt, i. p. 225. no. xlix. (1802). 
Stri.v ferox Yieill. N. Diet. d/Hist. Nat. vii. p. 22 (1817, 
ex Azara). 
Glaucidium ferox Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ii. p. 200; 
Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 122 (Paraguay). 
Glaucidium brasilianum Berlepsch, Bull. B. O. C. xii. p. 8 
(1901); Ihering, llevista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 337. 
Glaucidium brasiliense Berlepsch, t. c. p. 8. 
Glaucidium, ferox rufus Bertoni, Ayes Nuev. Paraguay, 
p. 179 (1901) ; Ihering, J. c. 
a, b. S a d. Sapucay, April and May 1903. 
Bill and claws yellow ; iris golden. Shot in monte 
during the day. 
c. S ; d, e. $ ad. Sapucay, April and June 1904. 
The male birds are darker and smaller, while the females 
are larger and more inclined to rufous in colour. 
[This species is resident and by no means uncommon 
throughout the wooded districts of Central Paraguay. It 
is often to be met with tame in the native houses, and 
makes a pleasant little pet when young, but invariably 
makes for the forest when adult. Of course this is easy 
enough, as none of the houses are many yards distant from 
some wood. Although it is not rare I have never met with 
its nest, and know nothing whatever about its breeding- 
habits.— W. F] 
[To be continued.] 
XV._ On the Birds of Northern Rhodesia and the Katanga 
District of Congoland. By S. A. Neave, M.A., B.Sc., 
F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
(Plates I. & II., and Text-fig. 2.) 
The following paper deals chiefly with the birds that I 
collected during my second expedition in the years 1907 
and 1908; the former year (1907) having been spent in 
Katanga, and the latter (1908) mainly in the more northern 
