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Birds of Paraguay , 
tree. Three eggs appear to be a full clutch, but at times a 
parasitic egg is laid with the others; in fact, in one case the 
parasitic egg was laid before the proper bird had had a chance 
to lay at all.— W. F.~\ 
120. Platyrhynchus platyrhynchus. 
Broad-billed Tody Lath. Gen. Syn. i. pt. 2, p. 664 (1782 : 
Museum of the Prince of Orange). 
Todus platyrhynchos Gra. Syst. Nat. i. p. 446 (1788), ex 
Lath. 
Todus rostratus Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 268 (1790). 
Platyrhynchus rostratus Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. 
p. 65. 
Platyrhynchus platyrhynchus Sharpe, Hand-list B. iii. p. 100 
(1901). 
a. $ ad. Sapucay, September 9, 1904. 
This example is identical, both in colour of plumage and 
measurements, with others in the British Museum series, from 
Brazil. 
The species is new to the avifauna of Paraguay. 
[I have only met with one specimen of this bird and know 
nothing about it.— W. F".] 
121. Platyrhynchus mystaceus. 
Bigotillos Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 93, no. clxxiii. (1805). 
Platyrhynchus mystaceus Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvii. 
p. 14 (1819: Paraguay); Berlepsch, J. f. O. 1887, p. 117 
(Paraguay); Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 67; Ihering, 
Revista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 324 (Paraguay). 
a. $ ad. Sapucay, October 25, 1902. 
b, c. S ? ad. Sapucay, March 1903-04. 
Feet transparent pinky white with veins shewing through ; 
iris brown. 
d, e. S ;f, g. $ ad. Sapucay, April 1903-04. 
h. S ad. Sapucay, May 7, 1904. 
i. ^ ad. ,, June 2, 1904. 
[This species is resident and not uncommon in the large 
forests of the district. Like dozens of others of our monte 
birds its principal occupation is catching flies, and in this it 
