638 FRTNGILirD^;. 



The male specimen described appears to be in seasonal plumage, 

 as another male from San Carlos has no grey edges to the black 

 pectoral collar ; the head is ashy black, and the dark ashy on the 

 sides of the breast extends down the sides of the body and is only 

 slightly -washed with brown. 



Hub. Peru. 



a,b. d 2 ad. sk. Lima, Peru ( W. Nation). Sclater Coll. (Type 



of species.) 

 c. [cJ] ad. sk. " San Carlos." * M. Yerreaux. 



6. Poospiza melanoleuca. 



Chipiu negro y blanca, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 532 (1805) ; Vieill. N. 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xii. p. 4 (1817). 

 Emberiza melanoleuca, D'Orb. fy Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 82 ; 



Hartl. Ind. Azara, p. 10 (1847). 

 Poospiza melanoleuca, Bp. Consp. i. p. 473 (1850) ; Burm. La- 

 Plata Reis. ii. p. 484 (1861) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 439 (1871) ; Scl. 



Sr Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 30 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 605 ; 



Salv. Ibis, 1880, p. 354, pi. ix. fig. 2 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 599 ; 



Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 227 (1882) ; Barroivs, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, viii. p. 130 (1883). 

 Poospiza melanoleuca, Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 218, note (1856). 

 Passerina melanoleuca, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 99, no. 7469 (1870). 



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

 like the back ; median and greater coverts blackish, externally slaty 

 grey ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged 

 with slaty grey, rather paler on the inner secondaries, and more 

 hoary grey on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts a little darker slaty 

 grey than the back ; tail-feathers black, edged with slaty grey, 

 slightly tipped with white, the penultimate one with a large wedge- 

 shaped mark at the end of the inner web, the outer one white for the 

 terminal half and along the outer web ; crown of head, lores, feathers 

 below the eye, and ear-coverts black ; cheeks, throat, and under 

 surface of body white, washed with creamy buff; sides of body and 

 flanks pale ashy grey ; thighs dark slaty grey ; under tail-coverts 

 white ; under wing-coverts white, with a dusky spot near the out- 

 side of the wing ; axillaries ashy grey ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 along the inner edge : " bill, legs, and feet black ; iris light red " {H. 

 Dumford), "iris reddish brown" (E. W. White). Total length 

 4-7 inches, culmen - 45, wing 2-15, tail 2-1, tarsus - 8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male ; " iris crimson " ( White). 

 Total length 4'6 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2*15, tail 2-05, tarsus 

 0-75. 



Youiuj birds, as 1 take them to be, differ from the adults in wanting 

 the black hood, the crown being dusky blackish or streaked with 

 blackish. Some of them are washed with brown on the back. 



Hub. Argentine Eepublic. 



* As usual, the original label has been taken off this sjieciruen by Mr. G. E. 

 Gray, and thus no clue to the collector can be obtained. 



