90 fringillidjE. 



Carnarhynchus cinereus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 359 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 542 (1850) ; Salvin, Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 491 (1876) ; Tacz. 



P. Z. S. 1877, p. 321. 

 Gyrinorhynchus cinereus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 107, no. 7627 



(1870). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey ; lesser and median 

 coverts like the back ; greater coverts dusky, externally ashy grey, 

 a little lighter than the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills blackish brown, externally edged with ashy grey, the pri- 

 maries margined with paler ashy, the inner secondaries lighter ashy 

 on the outer webs, resembling the greater coverts ; rump and upper 

 tail- coverts a little paler than the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 edged with ashy, the outer feathers fringed with white round 

 the end of the inner web ; crown of head like the back ; lores and 

 base of forehead blackish ; eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts ashy grey, 

 with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks ashy grey, blackish at the base 

 and below the eye ; throat white ; fore neck, breast, and sides of 

 body pale ashy grey ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; thighs 

 also white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ashy grey, with 

 hoary margins ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : 

 " bill citron-yellow ; legs dirty yellow, with claws of the same 

 colour ; iris clear brown " (JelsJci). Total length 6-4 inches, culmen 

 0-65, wing 3-45, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, and only distinguished by 

 the clear grey colour of the upper parts of the body and on all the 

 margins of the quills and tail-feathers ; the under surface is whitish, 

 slightly inclined to isabelline washed with grey on the breast and 

 flanks ; lores blackish, slate-colour only on the anterior portion. 

 Bill dirty yellow, as well as the feet. (Taczanoivski.) 



Hob. Peru. 



a. Ad.sk. Payta, Peru, Jan. 1880 (Capt. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



A. H. Markham). 



b. Ad. sk. Tumbez, Peru (Jelski). Sclater Coll. 



17. SPERMOPHILA. 



Type. 

 Spermophila, Swains. Zool. Journ. lii. p. 348 (182/ ). S. hypoleuca. 

 Sporophila, Cab. in Wiegm. Arch. f. Naturg. 1844, 



p. 291 S. luctuosa. 



Catamenia, Bp. Consp. i. p. 693 (1850) S. analis. 



? Gyrinorhynchus, Reichenb. Syst. Av. Taf. lxxix. 



fig. 7 (1850) Typo haud indicate. 



Head of Spermophila lineata. 



