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ped with white : wings and tail brown, minutely edged with white 

 on the outer vanes of the primaries, and broadly on the outer 

 vanes of the three last secondaries ; tail subfurcate. 



Ventral aspect. Chin brownish black ; sides of throat, breast, 

 and flanks like the back ; belly and vent white. This description 

 is taken from a female. In the male the *' ventral aspect and 

 crown are pale crimson approaching to white on the vent ; crown 

 deep crimson ; frontlet and chin black." 



2nd primary longest ; 1st and 3rd equal. Length 5 J inches ; 

 alar breadth 9 inches. 



F. iliaca. Ferrugineous Finch. 

 Passer ella iliaca. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Upper mandible brownish horn colour ; lower one pale 

 flesh with a black tip ; legs and feet pale flesh colour ; eggs 5, 

 mountain green mottled with brown. 



Dorsal aspect. Head, scapulars, and back dark greyish brown, 

 brightening into ferruginous on the rump and wing coverts, the 

 latter of which are tipped with ferruginous white ; primaries and 

 secondaries umber brown ; the outer web of the 2 first primaries 

 edged faintly with white ; the outer webs of all the others, as well 

 as the scondaries, with bright ferruginous ; the 3 or 4 last secon- 

 daries broadly on outer webs of the tail feathers ferruginous, 

 inner webs umber brown ; tail coverts ferruginous. 



Ventral aspect. Lower eyelid white ; cheeks ferrugineous ; 

 chin, throat, breast and flanks white, with numerous triangular 

 spots of bright ferruginous, most numerous on the breast ; middle 

 of the throat, belly, vent, tail and wing coverts white. 



3rd primary longest ; 2nd and 4th equal ; 1st a little shorter 

 than the 5th. Length Y inches ; alar breadth 9j inches. 



F. ludoviciana, Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



Quiraca (Goniaphea) ludoviciana. Linn.! Sw.! Baird ! 



vs.v. Bill white horn colour ; legs and feet bluish ; irides 

 hazel ; eggs 4 to 5, white, spotted brown. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown and nape of neck black ; scapulars and 

 dorsal region as far as the rump black, edged with olivaceous ; 

 rump and tail coverts white, some of the former tipped with 

 brown ; greater and smaller wing coverts blackish brown tipped 

 with white ; tail black ; the three lateral feathers with a white 

 spot occupying more than half the inner vanes. 



Ventral aspect. Chin feathers black, minutely tipped with 



