728 fringhlid^;. 



Aimophila humeralis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 43 (1854). 

 Embernagra humeralis, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 91, no. 7347 (1870). 

 Amphispiza ferrariperazi, Ridgiv. Auk, iii. p. 332 (1886). 



Adult. General colour above bright chestnut, the upper back and 

 mantle with mesial streaks of black ; lower back and rump lighter 

 rufous, washed with brown ; scapulars chestnut ; lesser wing- 

 coverts also chestnut ; median coverts black, edged with white at 

 the ends ; greater coverts black, externally pale reddish brown, 

 washed with ashy white at the ends ; bastard-wing black, margined 

 with white ; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, edged with 

 ashy brown, rather more rufous on the secondaries, the innermost 

 of which are whitish at the ends ; upper tail-coverts dusky brown, 

 edged with whitish at the tips ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged 

 with ashy brown, the outer ones paler towards the ends, which 

 are tipped with white ; crown of head sooty black, inclining to 

 brown on the hind neck and sides of neck ; lores white ; remainder 

 of sides of face and ear-coverts sooty black ; cheeks and throat 

 white, separated by a broad malar line of black, which joins the sides 

 of neck ; sides of throat, fore neck, and chest black : breast and 

 abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks pale brown, the latter 

 light sandy buff like the thighs and under tail-coverts ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries ashy white ; quills below dusky, ashy along 

 the inner edge. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-6, tail 

 2-8, tarsus 0*75. 

 ' A second specimen, probably a female, has the head and neck 

 decidedly browner, and the black band on the fore neck narrower. 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-6, tail 2-55, tarsus 0-8. 



Hub. Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. 18 leagues from Pueblo, towards Sclater Coll. 



Chiatla (E. Rebouch). 



b. Ad. sk. Mexico (Boucard). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



9. Hsemophila mystacalis. 



Zonotrichia mystacalis, Haiti. Rev. Zool. 1852, p. 3 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1856, p. 305, 1859, p. 379 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 94, no. 7385 



(1870) ; Scl. $r Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 31 (1873) ; Lawr. 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 21 (1876). 

 Amphispiza mystacalis, Ridgw. Ibis, 1883, p. 400. 

 Hseinopkila mystacalis, Salvm 8f Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, 



i. p. 399 (1886). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, slightly tinged with 

 rufous on the back, the feathers of which are broadly streaked with 

 mesial black centres : scapulars, lower back, and rump bright chest- 

 nut or cinnamon-rufous ; upper tail-coverts also chestnut, dusky 

 brown towards the ends, which are margined with ashy ; wing- 

 coverts black, the lesser ones edged with ashy, the median and greater 

 series broadly tipped with white, forming a distinct double wing-bar ; 

 bastard-wing feathers black, narrowly fringed with white ; primary- 

 coverts and quills black, edged externally with ashy, whiter on the 

 primaries, the secondaries more broadly with pale cinnamon-rufous, 



