

17. SPEKM0PH1LA. 113 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dull olive-brown, slightly mottled with dusky bases to the feathers 

 of the back : lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish, edged with pale brown ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged with ashy brown, with a 

 tiny white speculum formed by the white base of the inner pri- 

 maries, the inner secondaries more broadly edged with pale brown ; 

 tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with olive-brown ; crown of head 

 like the back and slightly mottled with dusky centres ; lores and 

 lower eyelid ochreous buff ; ear-coverts like the head ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body pale ochreous buff, including the thighs and 

 under tail-coverts ; sides of body and flanks washed with brown ; 

 under wing- coverts whitish, washed with yellow ; axillaries like the 

 breast but edged with • olive-yellow ; quills below dusky, white at 

 base of inner web. Total length 3-8 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2*15, 

 tail 1-45, tarsus 0-5. 



Hub. Argentine Republic. 



a, b. d 2 a d- sk. Concepcion, Argentine Republic Sclater Coll. 

 {Barrows). 



18. Spermophila nigroaurantia. 



Bouvreuil de l'isle de Bourbon, Daubent. PI. Enl. v. pi. 204. tig. 1. 



Bouveret, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 387 (1778). 



Loxia bourbonensis, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat., Anhang, p. 154 (1776) ; 



Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 253. 

 Orange Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 146 (1783). 

 Loxia nigroaurantia, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 12 (1783). 

 Loxia aurantia, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 853 (1788). 

 Pyrrhula pyrrhomelas, Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 1027 (1823). 

 Loxia brevirostris, Spiv, Av. Bras. ii. p. 47, pi. 59. figs. 1, 2 (1825). 

 Pyrrhula capistrata, Vigors, Zool. Journ. v. p. 273 (1830). 

 Loxia fratereulus, pt., Cuv. Mas. Paris.; Less. Traite, p. 451 (1831). 

 Spermophila rubiginosa, Swains. C/assif. B. ii. p. 294 (1837). 

 Spermophila nigroaurantia, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1844) ; Sclater, 



Pots, 1871, p. 4 ; id. # Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 28 (1873) ; W.A. 



Forbes, Lbis, 1881, p. 335 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 221 (1882). 

 Spermophila pyrrhomelas, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 386 (1844) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 495 (1850). . 

 Sporophila aurantia, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 151 (1851) ; Burnt. 



Th. Bras. iii. p. 250 (1856). 

 Spermophila aurantia, Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 104 (1862) ; Pelz. 



Orn. Bras. p. 226 (1871)._ 

 Gyrinorhynchus nigroaurantius, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 105, no. 7568 



(1870). 



Adult male. General colour above cinnamon-rufous, a little deeper 

 in tint on the lower back and rump ; the scapulars slightly mottled 

 with black bases ; wing-coverts black, the lesser series edged with 

 ashy, the median and greater coverts margined with ashy reddish, 

 the latter more broadly : bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish, edged with hoary brown, whitish on the primaries, the 

 inner secondaries broadly margined with pale brown ; the middle 



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