636 FRINGILLID.33. 



a. $ ad. sk. Tinta, Peru, Jan. 12, 1869. H. Wliitely [C.]. 



b. $ ad. sk. Tinta, Jan. 12,1869^. Whitely). Sclater Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



c. Jim. sk. Tinta, May 20, 1868 (H. Whitely). Sclater Coll. 



d. S ad.sk. Tinta, May 12, 1868 (H. Whitely). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. Jad.sk. Tinta, Jan. 17, 1869 {H. Whitely). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. Juv. sk. Paucatanibo, Peru, Sept. 15, 1872 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 



4. Poospiza hypochondriaca. 



Emberiza hypochondria, cTOrb. $ Lafr. Mar/, cle Zool. 1837, p. 80; 



aVOrb. Voy. Amer. Merid., Zool, p. 361, pi. xlv. fig. 1 (1835-44) ; 



Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 216 (1856). 

 Euspiza? hypochondria, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 376 (1844). 

 Poospiza hypochondriaca, Bp. Consp. i. p. 473 (1850) ; Scl. Sf Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1870, p. 605. 

 Passerina hypochondria, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 98, no. 7463 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above brown, rather more ashy towards 

 the rump ; lesser wing-coverts dark ashy grey ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish, broadly edged with pale ashy fulvous ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts blackish, edged with ashy, whitish at the 

 'ends of the former ; quills blackish brown, edged with ashy, hoary 

 on the primaries, the inner secondaries pale ashy fulvous like the 

 greater coverts, paler on the margins ; upper tail-coverts more ashy 

 than the back : tail-feathers blackish, edged with ashy ; the four outer 

 tail-feathers with a white spot at the end of the inner web, increasing 

 towards the outer feather, which is white for more than half the 

 inner web and along the whole of the outer web, which is brownish 

 towards the end ; crown of head and hind neck dark ashy, blackish 

 on the forehead, extending in a line above the eye ; lores black, 

 surmounted by a broad white eyebrow ; upper and under edge of 

 the eyelid, as well as a spot below the eye, white ; ear-coverts dark 

 ashy ; feathers below the eye black ; cheeks and throat yellowish 

 white, separated by a malar line of blackish ; fore neck and chest 

 dark ashy grey ; breast and abdomen ochreous white ; sides of body 

 and flanks chestnut ; thighs ochreous white ; under tail-coverts 

 ochreous bun ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with ashy 

 bases ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " bill horn- 

 colour; feet blackish: iris brown " (d'Orbigny). Total length 5 -5 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-9, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-85. 



Another bird is presumably a female. It is rather browner on the 

 head, the grey band across the chest not so broad. Total length 

 5-2 inches, culmen 0*55, -wing 3-1, tail 2-75, tarsus 0*85. 



Hub. Bolivia. 



a. [ d ] ad. sk. Tilotilo, Yungas, Bolivia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(C. Buckley). 



b. Ad. sk. Bolivia. W. Bridges, Esq. [C.]. 



