730 FRINGILLIDJE. 



of forehead and lores black ; eyebrow and sides of crown clear slaty 

 grey, like the sides of face and ear-coverts ; cheeks also slaty grey, 

 except the fore part, which is black like the throat and lores • sides 

 of neck, lower throat, fore neck, and chest clear slaty grey ; remainder 

 of under surface of body creamy buff, the abdomen whiter ; thighs 

 pale ashy ; under tail-coverts creamy buff like the flanks ; under 

 wing-coverts and axiliaries pale slaty grey, the lower coverts white ; 

 quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 6*4 

 inches, culmen 065, wing 2-8, tail 2-8, tarsus 09. 

 Eab. Peru. 



a. Ad. sk. Valley of Rimac, Peru ( W. Nation). Sclater Coll. (Type 



of species.) 



77. CHAMJEOSPIZA. 



Type. 

 Ckamreospiza, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 304 C. torquata. 



Range. Mexico. 



1. Chamaeospiza torquata. 



Pipilo torquatus, Dubus, Bull. Acad. Brux. xiv. pt. ii. p. 10-5 (1847) ; 



id. Rev. Zool. 1848, p. 246 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 487 (1850) ; Dubus, 



Esq. Orn. pi. 36 (1851). 

 Kieneria torquata, Bp. C. B. xl. p. 356 (1855). 

 Chanifeospiza torquata, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 304, 1859, p. 365 ; id. 8? 



Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 274; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 120 (1862); 



Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. II. i. p. 552 (1869) ; Scl. $ Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873) ; Salvia fy Godman, Biol. Centr.- 



Amer., Aves, i. p. 399. 

 Buarremon ocai, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 126 (1866). 

 Euiberizoides torquata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 91, no. 7333 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above dull olive, shaded with brown 

 on the lower back and rump ; lesser and median coverts brighter 

 olive-yellow ; greater coverts olive-green, externally olive-yellow ; 

 bastard-wing dusky, with a yellowish- white margin : primary- 

 coverts dusky, externally olive ; quills dusky brown, externally 

 olive, the primaries olive-yellow along the outer web ; tail-feathers 

 dull olive-yellow, with glossy dark-brown shafts ; crown of head 

 and nape bright chestnut ; forehead black, extending in a broad 

 line along the sides of the crown ; in the centre of the forehead a 

 broad line of white ; lores, eyelid, feathers below the eye, and ear- 

 coverts black ; eyebrow white, extending to the sides of the nape, 

 where it is tinged with grey ; cheeks and throat white, followed by 

 a large crescentic patch of black on the fore neck ; breast and 

 abdomen white, with a slight tinge of olive-yellow on the former ; 

 sides of body and flanks light brown, the sides of the upper breast 

 grey, washed with olive-yellow on the sides of the fore neck ; thighs 

 ashy brown with an olive tinge ; under tail-coverts light fidvous 

 brown ; under wing- coverts yellow, very bright on the edge of the 

 wing ; axiliaries olive-yellow ; quills below dusky, edged with 

 ashy on the inner web. Total length 8-2 inches, culmen - 65, 

 wing 3'6, tail 4, tarsus 1T5. 



