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coverts ; bastard-wing blackish, edged with ashy grey, whitish 

 towards the tips; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown ed^d 

 with ashy hoary on the primaries, browner on the secondaries 

 upper tail-coverts more ashy brown than the back; ceXe tan- 

 feathers brown, the remainder blackish, the three outer one wi h a 

 white mark at the end of the inner web, more extended on the 

 outermost which is white along the outer web; crown of head 

 brown a little darker than the back, blackish on the base of he 

 forehead, extending m a line above the eye; lores blackish sur- 

 mounted by a white eyebrow; eyelid white; ear-coverts darkashv 

 brown with whitish shaft-lines ? cheeks and entire throat whi e 

 bod^li .ht e v aShy - gre ^ fOTe " eck > sides ^ breast, and sides of 

 S ll8 K f Vm0US 1 Cinna r n; Centre of breast and abdomen white • 

 thighs white; under tail-coverts white, tinged with fulvous; under 



S; co aTv s fT d axi l Iarie ; s , white - with ash y bases ; «** * 



dusky, ashy fulvous along the inner edge. Total length 6 inches 

 culmen Oo, wing 3, tail 2-75, tarsus 0-85. ' 



Hah. Bolivia. 



a ' Ad - sk - Bolivia. T. Bridges [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 3. Poospiza caesar. 

 Poospiza csesar Scl. $ Sah. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 152, pi. xiii • iid 

 A amend Av. Neotr. p. 30 (1873) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1873 p P 780 ■' Tact' 

 Orn. Perou, p. 32 (1886). ' V ' ' 



Passerina csesar, Gray, Hand-/, B. ii. p. 99, no. 7476 (1870). 

 Adult female (type of species). General colour above dark slaty 

 grey, with a brownish shade; lesser wing-coverts slaty gre7 

 median and greater coverts blackish, externally slaty grey ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, externally slaty grey 

 lighter on the primaries; upper tail-coverts dark slaty grey; tail-' 

 feathers blackish edged with ashy grey ; crown of head dark slaty 

 grej, with a frontal band of black; lores black, surmounted by a 

 narrow streak of white, continued into a broad white eyebrow 

 eyelid black with a few white feathers below; ear-coverts black ■ 

 cheeks and throat white ; sides of neck slaty grey ; fore neck and 

 breast deep orange-chestnut; centre of breast and abdomen white • 

 sides of breast, sides of body, and flanks dark slaty grey, as also the 

 thighs; under tail-coverts chestnut; under wing-coverts and 

 axillanes slaty grey, white on the inner lower coverts ; quills below 

 dusky the inner edge ashy. Total length 73 inches, culmen 0-7 

 wing 3-3, tail 3-15, tarsus 1-1. ' 



Adult male. Like the female in colour. Total length 7-6 inches 

 culmen 0-75, wing 3-5, tail 3-4, tarsus 1-1. 



The pair described were obtained in January. One shot in Sep- 

 tember is apparently in winter plumage, being very much browner 

 above and having the chest pale rufous, obscured by sandy-buff 



aK: & This raay be the piumage ° f the ^ ** 



Hah. Peru. 



