102 FKINGILLrD-ffi. 



little larger than that from Peru ; but I do not think there can be 

 any doubt of their both belonging to the same species. 

 Hob. From Peru to the Western Argentine Republic. 



a. Ad. sk. Callacate, Peru (Stolzmann). Sclater Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Salta, Argentine Republic, H. Durnford, Esq. [C.]. 



June 28, 1878. 



8. Spermophila pauper. 



Spermophila obscura (nee Tacz. 1874), Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 199. 

 Spermophila pauper, Berlepsch Sf Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 550 ; Tacz. 

 Orn. Perou, iii. p. 18 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with a slight olive 

 tinge ; lesser and median coverts like tbe back ; greater coverts, 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with 

 the same colour as the back, the greater coverts and inner secondaries 

 rather more reddish on the margins ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; 

 tail-feathers brown, edged with paler brown ; crown of head slightly 

 more ashy than the back ; the lores and feathers round eye ashy 

 whitish ; ear-coverts dull ashy brown ; cheeks and throat pale ashy ; 

 sides of neck like the head ; fore neck and breast dark ashy brown, 

 washed with olive ; abdomen whitish ; sides of body and flanks 

 olive-brown ; thighs olive-brown ; under tail-coverts pale fulvous ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish with a fulvous tinge, 

 those near the edge of the wing dusky brown ; quills below dusky, 

 ashy along the inner edge : " iris dark brown " (J. Stolzmann). 

 Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2, tail 1*5, tarsus 

 0-65. 



Hab. Ecuador to Peru. 



«, b. rf ad. sk. Chimbo, Ecuador, Nov. 1882 Sclater Coll. 

 (J. Stolzmann). 



9. Spermophila telasco. 



Pyrrkula telasco, Less. Voy. Coquille, i. p. 663, pi. 15. fig. 3 (1826). 

 Pyrrhula alaudina, cFOrb. $ Lafr. Syn. Av., May. de Zool. 1837, 



Spermophila telasco, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1844) ; Scl. Ibis, 



1871, p. 7 ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 497 ; id. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 28 (1873); Nation, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 329; Tacz. t. c. 



p. 519, 1877, p. 320 ; Berlepsch $ Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 550 ; 



Salv. t. c. p. 421 ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 14 (1886). 

 Sporophila alaudina, Bp. Co?isj). i. p. 496 (1850) ; Tschudi # Cab. 



Faun. Peruan. p. 222 (1855). 

 Sporophila telasco, Tschudi 8p Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. 1844, p. 291, et 



Faun. Peruan. p. 221 (1855). 

 Gyrinorhynchus telasco, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 105, no. 7570 



(1870). 



Adult male. General colour above ashy grey, washed with brown, 

 and mottled with blackish centres to the feathers of the mantle and 



