67. poospiza. 645 



below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 5-2 inches, 

 culraen Ooo, wing 2-5, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-85. 

 Hub. Argentine Republic. 



a. J ad. sk. Conception, Misiones, Argentine Re- Sclater Coll. 

 public, June 27, 1881 (E. W. White). 



14. Poospiza torquata. 



Ernberiza torquata, D'Orb, Sf Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 82. 



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

 Plata St. ii. p. 484 (1861) ; Sclater, Cat. Amer. B. p. 110 (1862) ; 

 id, # Salt: Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 30 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, 

 p. 605 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 599 ; Solum, Cat. Strickl. Coll, 

 p. 227 (1882). 



Passerina torquata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 98, no. 7467 (1870). 



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

 coverts like the back; median coverts black, tipped with ashy; 

 greater coverts black, all but the inner ones broadly tipped with 

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

 black ; quills blackish, edged with ashy, the inner primaries exter- 

 nally margined with white ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail- 

 feathers black, edged with ashy, the outer feather white along the 

 outer web and across the terminal third of the inner one ; the penul- 

 timate feather with a wedge-shaped spot of white at the end of the 

 inner web, reduced to a small spot on the third feather ; crown of 

 head a little darker grey than the back, bordered by a line of black 

 from the base of the bill to the sides of the nape ; lores black ; a 

 broad eyebrow and the upper and under edge of the eyelid white ; 

 ear-coverts and feathers below the eye black like the lores, forming 

 a broad band down the sides of the neck ; cheeks and throat white ; 

 lower throat and fore neck black, the feathers edged with ashy ; 

 sides of fore neck and sides of breast ashy grey ; centre of breast 

 and abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks paler ashy grey ; 

 thighs ashy ; under tail-coverts chestnut ; under wing-coverts white, 

 with a dusky spot near the edge of the wing ; axillaries ashy ; quills 

 below dusky blackish, ashy whitish along the inner edge. Total 

 length 5-3 inches, culrnen - 4, wing 255, tail 2-2, tarsus 0*65. 



Adult female . Similar to the male, but a little browner above ; 

 the sides of the body rather browner than in the male. Total length 

 5 - inches, eulmen 0'45, wing 2-4, tail 2'1, tarsus 0-65. 



Hub. Eastern Argentine Republic, Mendoza, and Bolivia. 



a, b. [ c? 2 ad.] sk. Bolivia. Sclater Coll. 



e. [ § ] ad. sk." Bolivia. W. Bridges, Esq. [C.l. 



d.[j] ad. sk. Bolivia. W. Bridges, Esq. |C.]. 



e,f. Ad. sk. Tilotilo, Province of Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Yungas, Bolivia (C. 



Buckley), 

 g. 2 ad. sk. Meudoza, Feb. 1871 Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



( Weisshav.pt). 

 h. tf ad. sk. Pampas Argentina* Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Leybold). 



