67. poospiza. 



643 



11. 



Poospiza ornata. 



Salv 



Poospiza ornata, u Landbeck" Scl 



p. 30 (1873). 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr, 



Adult male. General colour above dark chestnut-brown ; lesser 

 wing-coverts dark ashy grey ; median coverts white, forming a wing- 

 bar ; greater coverts blackish, edged with ashy, white near the ends ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky, edged with ashy, 

 whitish on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts dark ashy grey ; centre 

 tail-feathers dark brown, the remainder blackish, edged with ashy, 

 with a white spot at the end of the inner web, increasing in size to- 

 wards the outermost ; crown of head and hind neck dark ashy grey ; 

 lores dark ashy ; eyebrow pale chestnut, bordered above by a blackish 

 line along the sides of the crown ; eyelid buffy white ; ear-coverts 

 and feathers below the eye dark ashy like the lores and sides of neck ; 

 below the eye a whitish spot ; cheeks and under surface rich vinous 

 chestnut ; base of chin buffy whitish ; abdomen paler and more 

 cinnamon-rufous ; sides of body and flanks deep maroon ; thighs like 

 the abdomen ; under tail-coverts pale cinnamon ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries pale tawny buff; quills below dusky, ashy along the 

 inner edge. Total length 5 inches, culmen 04, wing 2*5, tail 2*2, 

 tarsus 065. 



Adult female, iluch paler everywhere than the male, the head 

 and hind neck as well as the ear-coverts much lighter ashy than in 

 the male ; eyebrow reddish white ; cheeks and under surface of body 

 pale cinnamon-rufous, much lighter than in the male. Total length 

 5 - 5 inches, culmen 045, wing 2-5, tail 2-2, tarsus - 65. 



Hub. Western Argentine Republic and Mendoza. 



a, b. S 2 a d. sk. 

 o,d. $ $ ad. sk. 



Mendoza ( Weisshaupf). 



Pampas Argentinas {Ley bold). 



12. Poospiza lateralis. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Salviu-Godoian Coll. 



Montese obscuro y roxo, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 434, no. 116 (1802). 



Fringilla lateralis, Nordm. in El-mail's Seise, p. 10 (1835). 



Pipillo superciliosa, Sicains. An. in Menag. p. 311 (1837) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 360 (1841). 

 Tanagia pyrrbopyga, Liclit. MSS. in Mils. Berol. 

 Poospiza lateralis, Cab. Arcli.f. Naburg. 1^47, p. 350; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 473 ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 43 (1854); Scl. §• Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 30 (1873) ; Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, viii. p. 130 (1883). 

 Poospiza superciliosa, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 137 (1850) ; Salv. 



Cat. StricU. Coll. p. 226 (1882). 

 Passeriua lateralis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 98, no. 7466 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above ashy grey, washed with olive on the 

 mantle and upper back ; the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts bright chestnut ; lesser wing-coverts dark slaty grey ; 

 median and greater coverts blackish, externally edged with slaty 

 grey, the outer greater coverts rather broadly edged with white ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged with 



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