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below than examples from Buenos Ayres, but this is probably due to 

 its fresh plumag-e. "Iris brown/' 



MYOSPIZA MANIMBE ( Lichtenstein) . 



Fringllla manimbi' Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, p. 25. 



One example, an adult male in freshly molted plumage. "Iris 

 brown." There seem to be absoluteh'^ no constant characters to sup- 

 port the separation of the birds of this region as a subspecies dorsalls.^ 



BRACHYSPIZA CAPENSIS CAPENSIS (Miiller). 



Frliigillac((j/t'iisis MvLi^En, Syst. Nat., Anlumg, 177H, p. 165. 

 Brachyspiza caperms Ridgway, Auk, XV, 1898, p. 821. 



One specimen, an adult male. "Iris light brown." 



SYCALIS PELZELNI Sclater. 

 Si/calis pclzelni SvhATKR, Ibi^, 1872, p. 42. 



One specimen in fresh plumage. The flanks and sides are ver}^ 

 obscurely streaked, and the dull pectoral band is conspicuous. The 

 orange yellow of the forehead is much obscured by dusky. "Iris 

 brown." 



SPOROPHILA ALBOGULARIS (Spix). 



Lo.rid. alhognhtrix 8pix, Av. (ten. et. Spec. Nov. Bras?., II, 1824, p. 4(), pi. i>x, 



figs. 1,2. 

 Sporophila aUxigtdarls CwASii^, Mas. Ileiu., I, 1851, p. 149. 



A single female Spdi'ophjla l)elongs apparently to this species. " Iris 

 brown." 



CYANOLOXIA GLAUCOCiERULEA i d'Orbigny). 



Pyrrhula glaucoimilea d'Orbigny, Voy. Anier. ]\leri(l., Ois^., 1835-44, pi. i>, fig. 2. 

 Ci/anolo.ria glmicocaerulea Bonaparte, Coiisp. Avium, I, 1850, \k 503. 



Two specimens. "Iris brown." One of these is an inuuature male 

 just l)eginning to assume the blue plumage of the adult, in which con- 

 dition it is paler below than the adult female. The other example is 

 an adult female, but is darker, particularly above, than another of 

 the same sex, in this approaching Lhjdnoeoiiipsa sterea, though in other 

 respects remaining typical of C. (jJdncocd'i'ulea. 



CYANOCOMPSA STEREA Oberholser. 



Clinnocotiipm Meiwa ()berhol!sek, Proe. Biol. Soc. Wasliiiigtun, XIV, 1901, j). 188. 



Cliai's. sj>. — Similar to Cyanocouqmi eyaned., but bill much smaller; 

 the blue of forehead and crown less purplish; the female much deeper, 

 less rufescent brown, particularly on the upper surface. 



Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Land Birds, I, 1874, p. 549. 



