610 FKINGIIilDiE. 



whitish ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers blackish brown, edged 

 with ashy brown, the former broadly, the latter narrowly, the outer 

 feathers fringed with whitish ; crown of head uniform ashy grey, 

 more hoary over the eye and towards the lores and base of forehead ; 

 lores, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts blackish ; a shade 

 of ashy grey across the latter, with whitish shaft-lines ; the ear- 

 coverts distinctly black along the upper margin, extending in a 

 line on to the sides of the neck, which are chestnut, this colour 

 descending on to the sides of the breast ; cheeks and throat white, 

 with dusky bases to the fore part of the chin and cheeks ; below 

 the hinder ear-coverts a large white patch ; fore neck with a 

 black patch, somewhat broken up in the centre ; breast ashy ; 

 abdomen white with a slight tinge of olive-yellow ; sides of breast 

 and flanks brown, slightly rufescent on the former ; thighs dull 

 ashy, with whitish tips ; under tail-coverts yellowish white, with 

 dusky centres ; axillaries pale brown, tinged with olive-yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts whitish, with dusky bases ; quills dusky, ashy along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0'5, 

 wing 3-4, tail 4-7, tarsus 0-9. 



Young. Resembles that of Z. pileata, hut is larger. Wing 3T 

 inches. 



Hab. Patagonia. 



a. Ad. sk. South America. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. Tierra del Fuego (C Darwin). Zoological Society. 



(Type of species.) 



c. Juv. sk. Port Desire, Patagonia, Jan. 4, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1837 (C. Darwin). 



d. Ad. sk. Straits of Magellan. Capt. King [P.]. 



e. $ ad. sk. Sandy Point, Straits of Magel- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Ian, March (Dr. Cunningham). 



f. g. ? juv. sk. Sandy Point. Voy. H.M.S. ' Chal- 



lenger.' 

 h. Ad. sk. Puerto Bueno, Nov. (Dr. Cop- Voy. H.M.S. 'Alert.' 



pinger). 

 i,k,l,m. Ad.sk. S. Martin's Cave, Hermit Tsland. Antarctic Expedition. 

 n. J ad. sk. Chuput, Patagonia, Oct. 31. H.Durnford,Esq.[P.]. 



o. $ ad. sk. Chuput, Sept. 25. H.Durnford,Esq.[P.]. 



9. Zonotrichia pileata. 



Bruant du Cap de Bonne Espdrance, Daubent. PL Enl. iv. pi. 386. 



fig. 2. 

 Fringilla capensis, P. L. S. Midler, Si/st. Nat. Suppl. p. 165 (1776) ; 



Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 255. 

 Emberiza pileata. Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 23 (1783). 

 Chingolo, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 492 (1802). 

 Fringilla matutina, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 25 (1823). 

 Tanagra rirficollis, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 39, pi. 53. fig. 3 (1824). 

 Fringilla cliilensis, Meyen, Reis. iii. p. 212 (1834). 

 Zonotrichia subtorquata, Sivains. Classif. B. ii. p. 288 (1837). 

 Pyrgita peruviana, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 45. 

 Zonotrichia matutina, Gould, Voy. 'Beagle,' 1 p. 91 (1841); Hartl. 



Ind. Azara, p. 9 (1847) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849) ; Bp. 



