432 PHRYGILUS GAYI AND ALLIED SPECIES. 



specimens fiuled to light brownish, but always blackish, in contrast 

 with color of lower mandible, in specimens which have not long been 

 exposed to the light); wing 3.00-3.50, tail 2.40-3.G5, exposed culmen 

 .48-.50, depth of bill at base .28-.33, tarsus .85-.80, middle toe. 01-.65. 



Adult male in summer (Xo. 15246, Chili ; Lt. J. M. Gilliss, U. S. N.): 

 Head, neck, and upper chest, uniform deep slate-color, with a plumbe- 

 ous cast, becoming black on lores and anterior border of chin, malar 

 region, and forehead ; back and most of scapul;»rs bright olive-green, 

 the lower back and rump similar but more yellowish ; outer and poste- 

 rior scapulars, lesser and middle wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts 

 slate-gray; rest of wings, and tail, dusky, the feathers broadly edged 

 with slate-gray, this almost uniform over outer surface of the closed 

 wing. Sides of neck, lower chest, breast, belly, sides, and flanks deep 

 wax-yellow or dull Indian yellow, passing into clear gamboge-yellow on 

 middle of belly ; anal region and under tail-coverts white. Length 

 (mounted specimen) about 5.50, wing 3.50, tail 2.65, exposed culmen 

 -50, depth ol" bill at base .32, tarsus .87, middle toe .61. 



Adult male {female'^.) in winter (Xo. 48971, Santiago, Chili, August, 

 1802; Xat. Mus. Chili) : Similar to the preceding, but colors duller and 

 much less shari)ly defined, top of head narrowly streaked with dusky, 

 chin, throat, ui)i)er chest, and sides of head much lighter gray (inclin- 

 ing to ash-gray), the lores merely dusky, no black round base of bill, 

 hind-neck dull olive-slaty, back much duller olive-green (not sharply 

 contrasted with the color of the hind-neck), rump more greenish, wings 

 and tail more brownisli-gray, and breast, sides, and flanks strongly 

 tinged with olive-green. Length (skin) 5.50, wing 3.00, tail 2.40, ex- 

 posed culmen .49, depth of bill at base .28, tarsus .89, middle toj .05. . 



Adult female (.?) in icinter (Xo. 48970, same locality, date, &c.):' Es- 

 sentially similar to the supposed winter male, but gray of head lighter, 

 the chin and throat and malar region inclining to grayish white, relieved 

 by a broad and conspicuous dusky streak along each side of throat. 

 Yellow of breast, &c., more of a saflron hue (especially next to grayish 

 white of throat), and not extending as far backward as in the male, the 

 lower belly being whitish and the flanks dull, bufl'y grayish, tinged with 

 olive. Length (skin), 5.70; wing, 3.15; tail, 2.45; exposed culmen, .48; 

 tarsus, .So-, middle toe, .02. 



Plirygilus formosus (Gould). 



FriugiUa formosa Gould, Zool. Beag., iii., 1841, 93 (Tierra del Fuego). 



PlirjK/UiisfurntoiiUS Bonap., Cousp., i, 1850, 477. 



Clilorospiza (jayi Gay, Fauu. Chil., 1847, 355 (Vuliniraiso and sonthward). {Xcc Frin- 



(jilla (jaiji Eyd. & Geuv., 1834 !) 

 rhriiyilus gaiji SCL. t& Salv., Ibis, 18G9, 285 (Str. Magellan; crit.). 



i/^,^,7flf._Tierra del Fuego (GoM^rZ; Punta Arenas, U. iS. N'at. Mus.); 

 Straits of Magellan ( U. S. JSfat. Mus.) ; Chili (Valparaiso and southward, 

 Gay); southern Patagonia {Dancin). 



