42. sycaiis. 383 



saffron-yellow on the cheeks and throat. Total length 5'5 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2 - 85, tail 2*1, tarsus 065. 



Young. Similar to the old female but more mottled, the whole of 

 the upper surface, including the lower back and rump, being broadly 

 streaked with blackish centres to the feathers ; wing-coverts and 

 quills edged with white or yellowish white, the secondaries exter- 

 nally brown ; lores, eyebrow, cheeks, and throat whiter than in the 

 old female ; breast and abdomen pale yellow, the fore neck and 

 breast thickly streaked with dark-brown centres to the feathers, the 

 flanks less distinctly striped. 



In its first winter plumage the young bird closely resembles the 

 adult female, but is more distinctly streaked above, and is paler 

 below, with tiny brown streaks on the fore neck and chest. 



Hub. Southern Brazil, Argentine Republic, Bolivia, and Chili to 

 Southern Peru. 



a. Ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 



b. $ ad. sk. Conchitas, Buenos Ayres, Sclater Coll. 



Oct. 1806 (IF. H. 

 Hudson). 



c. Ad.; d. Imm.sk. Buenos Ayres, Nov. 5, H. Durnford, Esq. [P.]. 



1876. 

 e. Ad. sk. Buenos Ayres, May 20, H. Durnford, Esq. [P.]. 



1876. 

 /. 2 a d- sk. Uruguay, Aug. 1877. Alan Peel, Esq. [C.]. 



g, h. c? $ ad. sk. Matogrosso, July 22, 1825 Sclater Coll. 



(J. Natterer). 

 i. Ad. sk. Bolivia. W. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Tilotilo, Prov. Yungas, Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



Bolivia ( C. Buckley), 

 m, n. Ad. sk. Mendoza (Burmeister). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



o. Ad. sk. Chili. Sclater Coll. 



p. Juv. sk. Chili (Philippi). Sclater Coll. 



q, r. rf J ad. sk. Prov. Santiago, Chili Sclater Coll. 



(Landbeck). 

 s. 2 ad. sk. Prov. Santiago, Chili Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Landbeck). 

 t. 2 juv. sk. Coquimbo, Chili, Nov. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1881 (A. H.Markham). 

 u. Ad. sk. Talcahuano, Chili (A. H. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Markham). 



Subsp. a. Sycaiis luteiventris. 



Fringilla luteiventris, Meyen, N. Acta Acad, Leap. xvi. Suppl. p. 87, 



pi. 12. fig. 3 (1834) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 372 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. 



B.ii. p. 84, no. 7230 (1870). 

 Crithagra luteiventris, Bp. Consp. i. p. 521 (1850). 

 Sycaiis arvensis (nee Kittl.), Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 126 ; id. P. Z. 8. 



1867, p. 323 ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 61 (1886). 

 Sycaiis luteiventris, Scl, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 342 ; id. $• Salv. P. Z. S. 



1869, p. 599. 

 Sycaiis luteola (nee Sparrm.), Berlepsch fy Tacz. P. Z. S. 1884, 



p. 294; Tacz. Sf Berlepsch, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 85. 

 Sycaiis raimondi, Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 522. 



Adult male. Similar to S. minor, and of small size and bright 



