608 FRINGILLID-JI. 



k, Imm. sk. California. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Ad. sk. Hayward'a, California, May 19, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1881 (E. W.Emerson), [P.]. 



6. Zonotrichia strigiceps. 



Zonotrickia strigiceps, Gould, Vou. 'Beagle,' Birds, p. 92 (1841); 

 Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849) ; Bp. Consj). i. p. 479 (1850); 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 94, no. 7382 (1870) ; Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. 

 Av. Neotr. p. 31 (1873) ; Scl Ibis, 1877, p. 47, pi. 1. fig. 2 ; Salv. 

 Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 230 (1882). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dark rufous-brown, 

 with fulvous or whitish edges to the feathers of the mantle and 

 back, which have broad black centres ; the lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts streaked with black centres to the feathers, the 

 upper tail-coverts slightly tinged with chestnut ; scapulars ferru- 

 ginous, streaked with broad black centres ; wing-coverts chestnut, 

 with dusky centres to the median ones, the greater series tipped in- 

 distinctly with sandy buff, and having a large black median streak ; 

 bastard-wing brown, margined with white ; primary-coverts and 

 quills blackish, edged with chestnut, the primaries with light brown, 

 the inner secondaries margined with sandy buff ; tail-feathers brown 

 with rufous-brown margins ; head chestnut, streaked with black, 

 with a median band of ashy olive on the hinder crown and nape, 

 very indistinct ; eyebrow ashy olive, yellowish above the lores ; 

 hind neck dark ashy grey, streaked with black, forming a broad but 

 indistinct collar ; ear-coverts pale rufous-brown ; feathers below the 

 eye dull whitish ; a narrow cheek-stripe of dull whitish, separated 

 from the throat by a line of dusky blackish ; throat ashy whitish ; 

 chest pale fulvous brown, ashy on the sides of the breast, which 

 have narrow blackish stripes ; abdomen white ; sides of body uni- 

 form sandy buff; under tail-coverts pale sandy buff, with small 

 black centres ; axillaries. and under wing-coverts dull white, with 

 pale brown bases ; quills dusky below, light ashy rufous along the 

 edge of the inner web. Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 

 2-35, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-8. 



Hub. Southern Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Santa F6, Buenos Ayres ( C. Sclater Coll. (Type of 



Darwin). species*.) 



7. Zonotrichia whitiif. (Plate XIII.) 

 Zonotrichia strigiceps, IHiite, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 38 (nee Gould). 



* This specimen was given by Mr. Gould to Dr. Selater in 1870. It had 

 doubtless been overlooked by him after be described the 'Beagle' collection in 

 1841, and became incorporated by mistake in bis own private series. 



t Dr. Sclater is probably right in suggesting to me that this species should 

 be placed in the genus H&mophUa ; but it is evidently a connecting link between 

 the latter genus and Zonotrichia. 



