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Birds of Paraguay. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper parts brown, 
somewhat paler on the rump and upper tail-coverts; wing- 
coverts blackish with rufous margins ; quills and tail-feathers 
blackish brown; entire under surface rufous brown, some¬ 
what paler on the throat and middle of abdomen ; bill 
blackish above, pinkish grey below; tarsi and feet very dark 
brown ; iris brown. Total length 5’6 inches, culmen 0 45, 
wing 2’75, tail 2*4, tarsus 0'8. 
[This species, like G. cyanea , I have met with during the 
months May to September. Its habits are also similar, so 
far as I know at present, and the same remarks about the 
plumage apply to this bird.— W. F.~\ 
213. Sporophila melanocephala. 
Pico grueso cejita blanca Azara, Apunt. i. p. 448. no. cxxiv. 
(1802). 
Coccothraustes melanocephala Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. 
xlii. p. 542 (1817 : Paraguay). 
Spermophila melanocephala Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. 
p. 118 ; Graham Kerr, Ibis, 1892, p. 125 (Fortin Page). 
Sporophila melanocephala melanocephala Hellmayr, Verh. 
zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1904, p. 533. 
Sporophila melanocephala Ihering, Bevista Mus. Paulista, 
vi. p. 321 (Paraguay). 
a . $ ad. Sapucay, June 11, 1904. 
Bill and feet dark horn-coloured; iris brown. 
b, c. $ ad. Sapucay, August 1904. 
Bill and feet dark vandyke-brown. 
d. S ad. Sapucay, September 6, 1904. 
Bill blackish brown; iris brown. 
The female is distinguished from the male chiefly by the 
absence of the black on the head, sides of face, and collar 
on the fore-neck, also by the absence of the rufous collar 
on the hind-neck. Total length 4*9 inches, culmen 0*4, 
wing 2'35, tail 2*1, tarsus 0*65. 
[A very rare bird with us, although I have seen one in a 
cage at Asuncion. It had been caught in the Chaco close to 
Asuncion, and was offered for sale in the market there. It 
