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of a paler maroon, not so deep as in the male, the feathers edged 

 with sandy huff. Total length 5*3 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2*3, 

 tail 2:8, tarsus - 75. 



A young male, shot on the 7th of August, resembles the female in 

 being browner above. The maroon of the underparts is not so rich 

 as in the adults ; the eyebrow is tinged with pale chestnut poste- 

 riorly. A young fenah has the eyebrow entirely dull white ; the 

 rufous of the underparts pale chestnut, not maroon, aud the white 

 spots on the outer tail-feathers smaller. 



Hub. Argentine Republic. 



a. $ ad. sk. Cosquin, Cordova, Argentine Sclater Coll. 



Republic, July 6, 1882 (E. (Type of species.) 

 W. White). 



b. $ ad. sk. Cosquin, June 23, 1882 (E. Sclater Coll. 



W. White). 



c. 2 ad. sk. Cosquin, Aug. 15, 1882 {E. Sclater Coll. 



W. White). 



d. e. J ad. sk. Cosquin, Aug. 1882 (E. W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



White). 

 f. <3 ad. sk. Cosquin, June 12, 1882 (E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. White), 

 (j. S a d. sk. Cosquin, Sept. 6, 1882 (E. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. White). 



10. Poospiza erythrophrys. 



Poospiza ervthroplirys, Sclater, Ibis, 1881, p. 599, pi. xvii. fig. 1 ; 

 White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 599. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dull reddish 

 brown washed with olive ; lesser and median coverts bluish grey ; 

 greater coverts blackish, edged with ashy and broadly tipped with 

 white, forming a wing-bar ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 blackish, narrowly edged with ashy ; quills blackish, margined with 

 ashy, the primaries with hoary white, extending the whole length of 

 the fourth and fifth, the inner secondaries washed with reddish brown 

 externally ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; centre tail-feathers 

 ashy grey ; the remainder black, externally ashy grey, the outer 

 feather white along the outer web, and for the terminal third of the 

 inner' one, the penultimate feather with a wedge-shaped mark of 

 white at the end ; crown of head dark ashy grey, contrasting with 

 the back, and streaked with dusky blackish ; lores and a broad eye- 

 brow chestnut, as well as the eyelid ; ear-coverts dark ashy grey 

 like the sides of the neck ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of body 

 chestnut, becoming paler on the sides of the body, flanks, and under 

 tail- coverts ; the abdomen buffy whitish ; thighs whitish ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills below dusky, white along 

 the inner edge : " iris dark brown " ( White). Total length 5-3 

 inches, culmen Oo, wing 2-4, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-8. 



Hub. Argentine Republic. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Sierra de Totoral, Catamarca, Sclater Coll. 



Argentine Republic, July 80, (Type of species.) 

 1880 (E. W. Wliite). 



