212 FRINGII.LID.E. 



a. [ <$ ad.] st. Chili. Mr. Bridges [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Chili. Purchased. 



i. Ad. sk. Chili (E. C. Reed). Salvin-GodmanColl. 



13. Chrysomitris atrata. 



Carduelis atratus, B Or b. § Lafr. Syn. Av. p. 83 (1837) ; I) 1 Orb. Voy. 



Amer. Merid. p. 364, pi. 48. fig. 2 (1835-44). 

 Chrysomitris atrata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 515 (1850) ; Licht. Nomencl. 



Av. p. 46 (1854) ; Cass, in Gilliss' U. S. Astr. Exped. p. 181 



(1855); JBurm. Beis. La Plata-St. ii. p. 490 (1861); Set. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 125 (1862) ; Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1865, p. 91 ; 



Scl. 8f Sah. Nomencl. Av. Neot.r. p. 34 (1873) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 



1874, p. 523; Scl. fy Salt: P. Z. S. 1879, p. 607; Tacz. Orn. 



Perou, iii. p. 53 (1886). 

 Fringiila atrata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 81, no. 7189 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above sooty black ; wing-coverts 

 black ; the greater coverts tipped with yellow ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts black ; quills yellow at base, black at the ends, the 

 inner secondaries entirely black ; upper tail-coverts and centre tail- 

 feathers black, the rest yellow at base, black at the ends ; head 

 black all round as well as the entire under surface, excepting the 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts, which are yellow ; thighs pale 

 yellow : under wing-coverts and axillaries yellow, the lower primary- 

 coverts black ; quills below blackish, yellow at base. Total length 

 4-8 inches, culmen - 4, wing 3-15, tail 1-9, tarsus - 6. 



Adult female (?). Differs from the male only in being more 

 brownish black ; the median as well as the greater coverts tipped 

 with pale yellow, and the quills edged with yellowish white near the 

 end of the outer web ; the yellow on the under surface is rather 

 paler and extends up to the fore neck, but is mottled with brown on 

 the breast. Total length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3-2, tail 2, 

 tarsus - 6. 



The above may be the young bird, as the Museum does not 

 contain any specimens with the female sex identified by the 

 collector. 



Hab. From Mendoza to Bolivia and Peru. 



o,6, c cJ ad. ; d. Bolivia. Mr. Bridges [C.]. 



[ 2 ? ad.] sk. 



e. S ad. sk. Bolivia {Bridges). Sclater Coll. 



f <$ ad. sk. Mendoza. Mr. Weisshaupt 



[C.]. 



g. <$ ad. sk. Mendoza ( Weisshaupt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. £ ad. sk. Pitumarca, Peru, Aug. 2, 1868 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 



14. Chrysomitris spinus. 



The Aherdivine, A/bin, Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 71, pi. 76 (1740). 

 Le Tarin, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 65 (1760) ; Dauhent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 485. 

 fig. 1 ; Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 221 (1778). 



