760 FRINGILLmffl. 



tinctly washed on the back and rump with olive-yellow ; lesser and 

 median coverts olive-yellow; greater coverts, bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills brown, externally olive-yellow, more or less ashy 

 on the margins of the inner greater coverts and secondaries ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers brown, olive-yellow exter- 

 nally ; crown of head more distinctly ashy grey than the back ; 

 lores dusky blackish ; sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and under 

 surface of body ashy grey, becoming paler towards the breast, and 

 whiter on the lower abdomen ; sides of body and flanks rather 

 browner ; thighs and under tail-coverts isabelline brown ; under 

 wing-coverts ashy, edged with yellow ; edge of wing yellow ; axil- 

 laries ashy, with yellow margins ; quills below brown, ashy fulvous 

 along the inner edge. Total length &o inches, culmen 07, wing 3"8, 

 tail 4-1, tarsus 1*15. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 

 8 - 3 inches, culmen 065, wing 3-55, tail 3 - 75, tarsus 1-15. 



Breeding birds lose nearly the whole of the olive-yellow colour on 

 the upper surface, and become very ashy above. 



Hob. Prom Bolivia to Mendoza and the Western Argentine 

 Republic. 



a. Ad. sk. Tilotilo, Bolivia (C. Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b, c. d J ad. sk. Mendoza, Feb. 1871 ( Weits- Sclater Coll. 



haupt). 

 d.e. <$ 2 ad. sk. Mendoza. Herr Weisshaupt 



[C.]. 

 f, [/■ d 2 ad. sk. Mendoza, Feb. 1871 ( Weiss- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



haupt) . 

 h. $ ad. sk. Cosquin, Cordova, Argentine Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Republic, July 24, 1882 (R 



IV. White), 

 i. J ad. sk. Cosqiun, Aug. 10, 1882 {E. W. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



White). 

 k. Ad. st. South America. Purchased. 



3. Embernagra rufivirgata. 



Embernagra rufivirgata, Laicr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. v. p. 112, pi. 5. 



fig. 2 (1851) ; Baird, B. N Amer. p. 487 (18-58) ; id. Me.v. Bound. 



Surv. ii. Birds, p. 16, pi. 17. fig. 2 (1858) ; Baird, Breiver, 8f Ridgw. 



Hist. N. Amer. B. ii. p. 47, pi. 28. fig. 3 (1874) ; Merrill, Bull. 



Nutt. Orn. Club, i. p. 89 (1876) ; id. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. 



p. 128 (1878) ; Ridgw. t. c. p. 249 (1878) ; Sennett, Bull. U.S. 



Geol. Surv. iv. p. 22 (1878), v. p. 391 (1879) ; Ridgw. Proc. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. in. p. 181 (1881) ; Coues, Chech-!, N Amer. B. p. 61 



(1882) ; id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 398 (1884) ; Salvin $ 



Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 411 (1886) ; A. O. U. 



Check-list N Amer. B. p. 283 (1886) ; Bidgw. Man. N. Amer. B. 



p. 435 (1887). 

 Emberizoides rufivirgata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 91, no. 7332 (1870). 



Adult. Upper surface olivaceous, with a streak on each side of 

 the crown and another through the eyes rufous ; lores whitish ; 

 sides of head greyish ; below white, the breast ashy, the flanks and 

 crissum pale dusky brown, the bend of the wing yellow ; upper 



