82. E1TBERNAGEA. 759 



dark brown; tail-feathers olive-brown, externally somewhat brighter 

 olive and fringed with whitish at the ends ; crown of head rather 

 greener than the back, streaked with black shaft-lines, the fore- 

 head and feathers over the eye more distinctly grey ; lores and 

 fore part of cheeks blackish, as well as the feathers below the eye ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of face dark ashy grey ; cheeks, throat, sides 

 of neck, and fore neck paler and more hoary grey, inclining gra- 

 dually to isabelline brown on the breast and abdomen ; sides of body 

 ashy, rather browner on the flanks ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 isabelline brown, whiter on the edges, some of the outer coverts 

 more ashy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dull olive-yellow, 

 with ashy bases, the edge of the wing brighter yellow ; quills below 

 pale brown, ashy along the inner edge : " upper mandible brownish 

 black; lower mandible whitish yellow; iris brownish black" (Bur- 

 meister). Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 3 - 65, tail 3*7, 

 tarsus 1-15. 



Young. Very broadly streaked with black, the feathers of the 

 back with whitish edges ; crown and hind neck yellowish buff, 

 streaked with black ; throat and under surface of body washed with 

 yellow, with some dusky brown streaks on the fore neck. 



Hab. Southern Brazil. 



Zoological Society [P.]. 



Sir W. Burnett and 



Admiral Fitzroy [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godnian Coll. 

 (Type of E. poliocephalus.) 

 Sclater Coll. 



Sclater Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Henrv Drummond, Esq. 



/. Ad. sk. Brazil. M. Claussen [P.]. 



2. Embernagra olivascens. 

 Emberiza obvascens, D'Orb. §■ Lafr. Syn. Av. in May. de Zool. 1837, 



p. 75. 

 Embernagra longicauda, Strickl. Ann. # Mag. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 420 



(1844); Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 361 (1844); Bp. Consp. i. p. 482 



(1850); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 91, no. 7342 (1870). 

 Embernagra viridis, Burm. J.f. O. 1860, p. 256. 

 Embernagra olivascens, D'Orb. Voy. Amir. Merid., Ois. p. 285 



(1835-44) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 361 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 483 



(1850) ; Burm. Reis. La Plata-St. ii. p. 485 (1861) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 91, no. 7335 (1870) ; Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 



p. 32 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 606 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p. 233 (1882). 

 Limnospiza olivascens, Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 136 (1850). 

 Limnospiza longicauda, Cab. t. c. p. 136. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy olive, rather more dis- 



