62. ZONOTRICHIA. 609 



Adult male. General colour above light brown and Sparrow-like, 

 with fulvescent margins and black centres to the feathers of the 

 back and mantle, the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dis- 

 tinctly centred with black, but not so broadly as on the mantle; 

 lesser wing-coverts chestnut ; median and greater coverts blackish, 

 edged externally with pale sandy buff; bastard-wing blackish, 

 edged with white; primary- coverts and quills dusky blackish, 

 edged with pale brown, more ashy towards the end of the primaries, 

 the inner secondaries more rufescent externally, like the innermost 

 greater coverts ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with pale brown, 

 the outer ones also fringed with ashy fulvous round the end of the 

 inner web ; centre of crown and nape ashy grey, streaked with 

 black, and bordered on each side with a broad band of dark chest- 

 nut, also streaked with black; a distinct grey eyebrow, becoming 

 white over the lores ; the latter as well as the sides of the face and 

 the ear-coverts dark ashy grey, narrowly streaked with white shaft- 

 lines ; above the ear-coverts a streak of chestnut ; cheeks white, 

 with a narrow line of black above and below ; hinder cheeks ashy 

 grey ; throat white ; lower throat, fore neck, and breast pale ashy 

 grey ; abdomen white ; flanks and sides of body brown ; thighs pale 

 sandy buff, as well as the under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts pale sandy buff with a tinge of olive-yellow; quills 

 dusky below, ashy rufous along the inner web : " iris reddish brown " 

 (White). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-55, tail 2-8, 

 tarsus 0*75. 



Hab. Argentine Republic. 



a. $ ad. sk. Cosquin, Cordova, Argentine Republic, Sclater Coll. 

 June 17 (E. W. White). 



8. Zonotrichia canicapilla. 



? Rusty-collared Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 170 (1787). 



PFringilla australis, Lath. Ltd. Orn. p. 466 (1790). 



Zonotrichia canicapilla, Gould, Voi/. ' Beagle] Birds, p. 91 (1841) ; 



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



Bumf. Ibis, 1877, p. 33; Scl. t.c. p. 47, pi. 1. fig. 2; Scl. $ 



Sain.' Ibis, 1878, p. 432 ; Bumf. t. c. p. 393 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881, 



p. 7. 

 Zonotrichia pileata (nee Bodd.), Scl. 8f Sale. Ibis, 1870, p. 499. 

 Zonotrichia australis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 94, no. 7381 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above brown, the upper back and mantle 

 as well as the scapulars mesially streaked with broad black centres ; 

 the upper mantle more uniform, and separated from the head b)' a 

 collar of chestnut ; lower back and rump uniform ashy brown ; 

 lesser wing-coverts ashy grey ; median and greater coverts black, 

 externally reddish brown, more chestnut on the inner greater coverts, 

 which resemble the inner secondaries ; both median and greater 

 coverts tipped with white, the former more distinctly; bastard- 

 wing dusky blackish, edged with white ; primary-coverts and quills 

 dusky blackish, edged with rufous-brown, the primaries with ashy 



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