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g:reenish heads, were very tame and perched unafraid almost Avithin 

 reach. 



An adult male had the maxilla dull black ; base of gonys dark olive 

 buff; rest of mandible somewhat lighter than andover green; iris 

 russet; tarsus and toes chaetura drab. 



POOSPIZA TORQUATA (dOrbigny and Lafresnaye) 



Emheriza torquata cI'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, Mag. Zool., 1837, p. 82. 

 (Sicasica, Bolivia.) 



At Kilometer 200, west of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, an adult 

 female was taken September 25, 1920, from a little flock found 

 working among small branches in heavy brush. Subsequently others 

 were noted at Victorica, Pampa, on December 24 and 29, and two 

 more adult females were taken. They frequented low, scrubby 

 growth near the ground. The flight was tilting, accompanied by a 

 prominent display of white in the tail. 



LOPHOSPINGUS PUSILLUS (Burmeistcr) 



Guhernatrix pusilla Burmehster, Journ. fiir Ornitli., 1860, p. 254. (Tucu- 

 man.) 



At Laguna Wall, 200 Idlometers west of Puerto Pinasco, Para- 

 guay, on September 25, 1920, I found a pair of these little, crested 

 finches feeding on the ground at the border of a thicket of vinal, 

 and secured a female. The birds flew with quickly tilting flight, 

 with a prominent display of the white tail markings. Near Tapia, 

 Tucuman, on April 11, 1921, I secured another near a large bar- 

 ranca in a tract of low brush grown with weeds, where it was on the 

 ground with a mixed flock of Brachysfiza and Saltatricula. The 

 species has been recorded from Cordoba, Tucuman, Salta, and Jujuy, 

 so that its occurrence in western Paraguay is not astonishing. The 

 male is in molt. The female shows a black throat patch of irregular 

 form, and smaller size than in the male. In the Ibis for 1880 (pi. 

 9) a female taken in Tucuman by Durnford is figured with the 

 throat white. 



SALTATRICULA MULTICOLOR (Burmeistcr) 



Saltator multicolor Burme^stek, Journ. f iir Ornitb., ISGO, p. 254. (Parana.) 



This handsome finch was first encountered at the Laguna Wall, 

 200 kilometers west of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, where a male 

 was taken on September 25, 1920, a considerable extension of range 

 as it has not been recorded in literature outside of Argentina, where 

 it is found from Cordoba and Mendoza north to Salta. Near Tapia, 

 Tucuman, the species was common from April 7 to 13, 1921, and 

 four Avere skinned. The single bird from Paraguay is paler brown 



