605 
Birds of Paraguay. 
b. $ ad. Sapucay, April 30, 1904. 
Bill light horn-coloured above, cream-coloured below. 
c. $ ad. Sapucay, June 10, 1904. 
Bill dark horn-coloured, lower mandible slate-coloured; 
iris brown. 
d. e. $ ad. Sapucay, July 31, 1904. 
Bill slate-coloured, the extreme tip blackish ; feet slaty- 
blue ; iris light brown. 
/. $ ad. Sapucay, August 29, 1904. 
Bill and feet slate-coloured ; iris reddish brown. 
g. ? ad. Sapucay, September 12, 1904. 
Bill blackish above, lower mandible slate-coloured; feet 
slate-coloured; iris brown. 
Three eggs, collected on October 12, 1903, are lilac-brown 
with darker brown markings, which are confluent at the 
larger end, and measure : axis 0*8 inch; diameter 0*6. 
[This species is resident and not uncommon in the woods 
at Sapucay. I have met with it during most months of 
the year; it favours the clearer part and the edges of the 
forests. I have found it, occasionally, in the open.— W. F.] 
170. Pachyrhamphus polychropterus. 
Platyrhynchos polychropterus Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. 
xxvii. p. 10 (1818). 
Pachyrhamphus polychropterus Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xiv. p. 345 ; Ihering, Bevista Mus. Paulista, vi. p. 327 
(Paraguay); Richmond, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxxv. p. 600 
(1908). 
Climacocercus cyanocephalus Bertoni, Aves Nuev. Para¬ 
guay, p. 112. 
Pachyrhynchus polychropterus Hellmayr, Abhandl. Akad. 
Wiss. Miinchen, xxii. p. 666. 
a. $ ad. Sapucay, October 17, 1902. 
b. $ ad. „ February 27, 1904. 
Bill black, lower mandible dark slate-coloured; feet black; 
iris brown. 
c . d. $ ad. Sapucay, March 1904. 
One of the female specimens is in worn plumage and shews 
a good deal of grey, with streaks of yellowish, on the under 
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