634 FRINGILLIDA 



1. Poospiza thoracica. 



Fringilla thoracica, Nordm. in Erman's Seise, p. 10, Taf. iv. fig. 1 



(1835). 

 Pipillo rufitorques, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 312 (1837). 

 Carduelis rufigularis, Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 42. 

 Pipilo thoracica, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 360 (1844). 

 Poospiza thoracica, Cab. in Wiegm. Arcli.f. Naturg. 1847, p. 350; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 472 (1850) ; Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i.p. 137 ; Licht. 



Nomencl. Av. Berul. p. 43 (1854) ; Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 109 



(1862) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 229 note, et p. 439 (1871) ; Sel. | Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 36 (1873) ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 226 



(1882). 

 Paospiza thoracica, Bnrm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 217 (1856). 

 Passeriua thoracica, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 98, no. 7462 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above uniform ashy grey, slightly washed 

 with olive-brown ; lesser and median coverts bluish grey ; greater 

 coverts black, externally bluish grey ; bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts black, edged with ashy ; quills blackish, externally edged 

 with ashy, the primaries with hoary white, broader near the base of 

 the outer web, forming a kind of speculum ; upper tail-coverts like 

 the back ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with ashy grey, with which 

 the centre feathers are washed ; crown of head rather more ashy 

 grey than the back ; lores dusky blackish ; eyelid dusky ; below the 

 eye a white streak, followed by a blackish one ; ear-coverts pale 

 ashy ; cheeks and throat white ; lower throat, fore neck, and chest 

 rich vinous chestnut ; centre of breast and abdomen white ; sides of 

 body and flanks vinous-chestnut like the breast ; thighs ashy ; under 

 tail-coverts light tawny buff; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white ; quills below blackish, the inner edge white : " bill horn- 

 coloured brownish grey, the lower mandible paler : feet fleshy 

 brownish grey ; iris brown " (Burmeister). Total length 5-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 2-55, tail 2-5, tarsus 0'8. 



Adult female. Only differs from the male in being browner, 

 especially on tho head ; the chestnut on the lower parts much paler, 

 and the band on the fore neck not so broad : a tinge of yellow on 

 the throat and centre of breast. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-5, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-75. 



Bab. Brazil. 



a. Ad. ; b. Juv. sk. [Brazil.] Gould Coll. 



c, d. Ad. ; e. Juv. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen. 



/. Ad. ; g. Juv. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Novo Frihourgo, Prov. of Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Rio de Janeiro (J. Youds). 



i. Ad. sk. Bio de Janeiro. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Poospiza boliviana. (Plate XI V.) 



Adidt. General colour above brown ; lesser wing-coverts ashy 

 grey ; median and greater coverts dusky brown, edged with ashy 

 grey and tipped with lighter ashy, hoary whitish on the greater 



