632 FEINGILIID^!. 



e. cJ ad. sk. Camp No. 17, 40th Parallel, Sept. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 2, 1807 (-R. Bidgtvay ; Sm. no. 

 53515). 

 Fort Bridger, Utah, May 12, 1858 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(C. Drexler; Sm.no. 11201). 

 California, Aug. 21 (C. E. Aiken ; U.S. Nat. Museum. 



Sm. no. 69558). 

 San Bernardino, April 1, 1883 H.K.Coale,Esq.[P.]. 

 (B. B. Herron). 



3. Amphispiza quinquestriata. 



Zonotrichia quinquestriata, Scl. fy Salv. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 323 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 94, no. 7386 (1870) ; Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. 

 Neotr. p. 31 (1873). _ 



Amphispiza quinquestriata, Bidyw. Ibis, 1883, p. 400 ; Salv. 8f Godm. 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 368, pi. 27. fig. 2 (1886). 



Adult (type of species). General colour above reddish chocolate- 

 brown, slightly washed with ashy margins to the feathers, the lower 

 back and rump more decidedly ashy ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 edged with ashy grey ; quills brown, externally edged with reddish 

 brown, the primaries with ashy ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers 

 dark chocolate-brown, with ashy margins, the outer feather fringed 

 externally and round the tip with white ; head like the back, the 

 forehead distinctly ashy ; a narrow eyebrow white, surmounted by an 

 indistinct dusky line ; upper and under edge of eyelid white ; 

 anterior and posterior margin of eyelid chocolate-brown, like the 

 lores, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts : a line of white along 

 the cheeks, hinder part of the latter grey, like the sides of the 

 neck, the latter washed with brown ; malar line and a broad band 

 down each side of the throat black, the latter with a broad median 

 band of white ; lower throat and remainder of under surface of body 

 dark slaty grey, the centre of the breast and centre of the abdomen 

 white ; on the chest a longitudinal patch of black ; thighs and 

 under tail-coverts ashy, broadly edged with white ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts chocolate-brown, edged with white ; quills 

 dusky below, more ashy along the inner web. Total length 6'2 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-7, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-8. 

 Hab. Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



67. POOSPIZA. 



Type. 

 Poospiza, Cab. Arch./. Nattirg. xiii. p. 349 (1847) P. thoracica. 



Range. South America : Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia, extending into 

 Mendoza and Northern Patagonia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With no Hack collar across the throat. 

 a'. With no rufous on the rump. 



