104 FRINGILLID^. 



10. SpermopMla inornata. 



Linaria inornata, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 75. 



Fringilla inomata, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 372 (1849). 



Sporophila rufirostris, Landb. J. f. 0. 1865, p. 404. 



Gyrinorkynckus rufirostris, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 106, no. 7603 



(1870). 

 Spermophila rufirostris, Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 21. 

 Catamenia inornata, Scl. fy Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 31 (1873) ; 



Tacz. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 229, 1880, p. 199 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 486; 



Berlepsch $ Tacz. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 85. 

 Catamenia rufirostris, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 521 ; id. Orn. Perou, 



iii. p. 21 (1886). 

 Catamenia homochroa, Berlepsch fy Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 293 (nee 



Sclater). 



Adult male. General colour above bluish grey, streaked with 

 blackish on the mantle and back, less distinctly on the crown ; the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts uniform bluish grey ; lesser wing- 

 coverts uniform bluish grey ; median and greater coverts dusky, 

 externally bluish grey, the latter series whitish at the ends ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with ashy grey, 

 hoary on the primaries ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with ashy ; 

 sides of face and under surface of body light ashy grey, whitish on 

 the lower abdomen ; under tail-coverts chestnut ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries light ashy grey ; quills dusky below, ashy along the 

 inner web, which is not white towards the base : " bill reddish ; feet 

 brownish flesh-colour ; iris dark brown " (J. Stolzmanri). Total 

 length 5-8 inches, culmen - 4, wing 3'1, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-8. 



The adult male from Acancocha is much smaller than Bolivian 

 birds; wing 2'7. This is, however, equalled by the specimen 

 collected by Mr. Forbes in Bolivia and the one from Lima (Nation). 



Younger males are brown on the head and back, which parts are 

 distinctly streaked with blackish ; rump and upper tail-coverts more 

 uniform ashy grey. The grey of the under surface is washed with 

 brown. 



The skins here considered to be young males may be adult birds 

 in seasonal plumage, the series in the Museum not being sufficient to 

 determine all the changes of plumage. 



Hah. Bolivia and Ecuador. 



a. (S ad. sk. Bolivia. Mr, C. Bridges [C.]. 



b. [c? juv.]sk. Bolivia {Forbes). Sclater Coll. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Mendoza, Feb. 1871 ( Weiss- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



haupt). 



d. [ $ juv.] sk. Andes of Lima, Peru (Prof. Sclater Coll. 



Nation). 



e. iS ad. sk. Acancocha, Peru, May le>73 Sclater Coll. 



(Jelski). 



