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Mr. Charles Chubb on the 
Sapucay the presence of the bird is at once made known by 
the enormous excavations, which often measure four feet 
across, as if a bull in its rage had ploughed up the ground. 
The entrance is funnel-shaped, and narrows to some six 
inches in width,, and thence has a depth of about eighteen 
inches, the eggs being laid at the bottom.— W. F.] 
42. PODAGER NACUNDA. 
Ihiyau nacunda Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 544. no. cccxii. 
(1805). 
Caprimulgus nacunda Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. x. 
p. 240 (1817) ; Hard. Ind. Azara, p. 20 (1847). 
Podager nacunda Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 19 (Lambare) ; 
Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 619 (1892) ; Oates, Cat. 
Eggs Brit. Mus. iii. p. 58 (1903) ; Ihering, Bevista Mus. 
Paulista, vi. p. 332. 
a. Ad. Sapucay. 
Bill black ; tarsi and feet dirty horn-coloured ; iris golden 
yellow. 
One egg obtained at Sapucay, October 3, 1903, is 
pinkish cream-coloured, mottled with reddish brown and 
underlying spots of lavender-grey. It measures : Axis 1*35 
inches ; diameter 1*05. 
Two eggs collected at Sapucay, October 14, 1903, are 
cream-coloured, mottled with brown in greater contrast. 
Axis 1-35 to 1*45 inches; diameter 0*9 to 0*95. 
Two eggs procured at Sapucay, October 13, 1903, are 
pinkish cream-coloured, heavily blotched with brown. Axis 
T45 inches; diameter TO. 
[A rare bird throughout Central Paraguay. I have only 
met with two specimens in eight years, but 1 know of 
another which was shot at Asuncion. 
Occasionally at night it will perch upon some of the tall 
trees in the forest and give utterance to its peculiar cry* 
almost like a human cry of pain, gradually falling and dying 
away into silence. 
The common Guarani name for the bird is “ Guaimigue,” 
which in Spanish means ff que fue vieja,”—an old woman 
