27. CHRYSOMITRIS. 217 



abdomen white, the sides of the body olive-yellow, the lower flanks 

 brownish. Total length 5 - 3 inches, culmen 045, wing 3, tail 2, 

 tarsus 06. 



Hub. Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and Chili. 



a. 3 inim. sk. Falkland Islands (Copt. Abbott). Sclater Coll. 



b, c. cJ $ ad. sk. Straits of Magellan. Old Coll. 



d. J ad. sk. Tierra del Fuego. Sir VV. Burnett and 



Admiral Fitzroy. 



e. cJ ad. sk. Chili (E. C. Heed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f. 3 ad. st. Maldonado, Chili (C. Darwin). Zoological Society. 



g. [ c? ad.] sk. South America. Sclater Coll. 



16. Chrysomitris icterica*. 



L'Olivarez, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 232 (1778). 



Gafarron, Azara, Apant. i. p. 483 (1802). 



Fringilla magellanica *, Yieill. Nouv. Diet, a" Hist. Nat. xii. p. 168 



(1817, nee Vieill. 1805) ; Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Meth. iii. p. 983 



(1823) ; Neuicied, Beitr. Naturg. Bras. iii. p. 620 (1830) ; Audub. B. 



Amer. pi. 394 ; id. Orn. Biogr. \. p. 46 (1839) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



ii. p. 82, no. 7195 (1870). 

 Fringilla icterica, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 26 (1823). 

 Fringilla campestris, Spiv, Av. Bras. p. 48, pi. 61. fig. 3 (1824) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 37 (1849). 

 Carduelis magellanicus, Audub. Syn. p. 116 (1839); id. B. Amer. 



8vo, iii. p. 133, pi. 182 (1841). 

 Chrysomitris magellanica (nee V.), Hartl. hid. Azara, p. 9 (1847) ; 



Gay, Hist. Chile, i. p. 352 (1847); Bp. Consp. i. p. 516 (1850); 



Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 160 (1850) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 255 



(1856) ; Baird, B. N Amer. p. 419 (1858) ; Burm.Reis.La Plata- 



St. ii. p. 489 (1861); Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1865, p. 92 



Durnf. Ibis, 1876, p. 159 ; Gibson, Ibis, 1880, p. 30 ; Salv. t. c 



p. 355 ; id. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 213 (1882). 

 Chrysomitris icterica, Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 125 (1862, pt.) ; Pelz 



Orn. Bras. p. 231 (1871) ; Berlepsch $■ Ihering, Zeitschr. ges 



Orn. ii. p. 124 (1885). 

 Chrysomitris barbata (nee Mot), Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 140 ; 



iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 34 (1873, pt.) ; Durnf. ttis, 1877, 



p. 172 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 600. 

 Chrysomitris notata (nee Du Bus), Bidqw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



iii. p. 177 (1880)t. 



* I have not adopted the name magellanica for any of the South -American 

 Siskins, as at least four species have been called by that name. In the first 

 place it conveys a wrong impression, as the only Siskin supposed to occur in 

 the Straits of Magellan is C. barbata, and, secondly, 1 am convinced that the 

 bird figured by Vieillot in his ' Oiseaux Chanteurs ' is the long-billed Guiana 

 form. If the name of magellanica is to be revived, it must be used for the 

 Brazilian race, allowing that Vieillot was justified in transferring his own title 

 from the Guiana form figured by him in 1805 to the Paraguayan form, the 

 ' Gafarron ' of Azara, which he called F. magellanica in 1817. I hope, however, 

 that the readjustment of the names proposed in the present work will be accept- 

 able to ornithologists, though it is doubtful whether the four races of C. icterica 

 will be thought worthy of separation by every student of the genus. 



t Audubon stated that he got the present species in Kentucky, and American 

 ornithologists have admitted the Mexican C. notata into the list of North-Ame- 



