626 



FRINGILLID-E. 



back ; lores blackish ; feathers above the eye, sides of face and 

 ear-coverts rather brighter blue, as also the cheeks, throat, and 

 under surface of the body ; abdomen rather more ashy blue ; thighs 

 and under tail-coverts blue ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 like the breast ; quills below dusky, rather more ashy on the inner 

 edge. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 04, wing 2-4, tail 2-25, 

 tarsus - 75. 



This species has a distinct seasonal plumage, when the blue is 

 obscured by brown edgings to the feathers ; the bill, as in so 

 many other Finches, becomes brown on the upper mandible instead 

 of being entirely yellow. 



Hub. Brazil. 



a. $ ad. sk. Fumas, Brazil, Jan. 15, 182 



(J. flatterer). 



b. S ad. sk. Furnas, May 15, 1823 (J. 



Natter er). 



c. c? ad. sk. Bahia (Dr. Lushnath). 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Godnian Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



65. HAPLOSPIZA. 



Haplospiza, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 147 (1850) . . . 



Type. 

 H. unicolor. 



Head of Haplospiza unicolor. 

 Range. Brazil ; Mexico. 



1. Haplospiza unicolor. 

 Tanagra unicolor, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 



Haplospiza unicolor, Cab. Mus. Hem. Th. i. p. 147 (1850) ; Sol. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 108 (1862) ; Scl. # Salvin, Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 29 (1873) : Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 225 (1882) ; Berl. f 



Ihering, in Madardszs Zeitsehr. aes. Orn. ii. p. 123, pi. viii. 



figs. 1, 2 (1885). 

 Spiza unicolor, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 45 (1854). 

 Passeiina carbonaria, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 98, no. 7450 (1870). 

 Passerina unicolor, Gray, t. c. p. 98, no. 7451 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above slaty grey ; lesser wing- 

 coverts somewhat more bluish slate-colour than the back ; median 

 and greater coverts externally edged with ashy grey, rather more 

 hoary on the margin of the primaries ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish ; upper tail-coverts like back ; tail- 

 feathers blackish, edged with slaty grey ; crown of head like back ; 

 lores and feathers round eye dark slaty grey ; ear-coverts and cheeks 

 ("ark slaty grey, with indistinct whitish shaft-lines; sides of neck and 

 under surface of body bluish slate-colour, rather lighter than the 



