(BRAZILIAN LOCHMIAS.)
+Lochmias nematura+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 462 (Paraná).
_Description._--Above clear brown, rump blackish, elongated
superciliaries white; tail blackish; beneath blackish brown, with
numerous large white oval spots occupying the centre of the
feathers; bill horn-colour, lower mandible pale brown at the base;
feet brown: whole length 5·5 inches, wing 2·8, tail 2·0.
_Hab._ South-east Brazil and Northern Argentina.
Professor Burmeister met with this Brazilian species near Paraná, where
it lives on the ground among the bushes.