766 FRINGILLID-ffi. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No yellow on the axillaries or wing-coverts ; sides 



of body not streaked with black ; ear-coverts 



ashy brown ; back ashy olive albifrons, p. 766. 



b. Axillaries bright olive-yellow; wing-coverts dull 



olive-yellow; sides of body marked longitudinally 

 with black ; ear-coverts black ; back chestnut- 

 brown, streaked with black melanotis, p. 767. 



1. Coryphospiza albifrons. 



Cola aguda vientre de canela, Azara, Apunt. ii. p. 263 (1802V 

 Sylvia albifrons, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 276 (1817); 



Hartl. Lid. Azara, p. 15 (1817). 

 Ammodromus longicaudatus, Gould in Darwin's Voy. ' Beayle,' 



Birds, p. 90, pi. 29 (1841); Bp. Consp. i. p. 482 (1850). 

 Donacospiza albifrons, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 136 (1850) ; Scl. # 



Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 161 ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 30 (1873). 

 Poospiza albifrons, Burin. Reis. La-Plata St. ii. p. 484 (1861). 

 Emberiza oxyrhyncha, Natterer, MSS., wide 

 Poospiza oxyrhyncha, Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 608 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. 



p. 229 (1871). 

 Emberizoides albifrons, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 90, no. 7329 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, streaked with dusky 

 blackish centres to the feathers ; the lower back and rump uniform ; 

 lesser wing-coverts ashy, median and greater coverts dark brown, 

 edged with paler brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky brown, with ashy margins, browner on the inner secondaries; 

 upper tail-coverts more fulvous brown than the back ; tail-feathers 

 pointed, dark brown, with ashy margins, the outer ones fringed 

 with white at the end of the inner web ; crown of head ashy grey, 

 with dusky centres to the feathers ; hind neck uniform ashy brown ; 

 lores and a tolerably defined eyebrow buffy whitish ; eyelid dusky ; 

 feathers in front of and below the eye dusky blackish ; ear-coverts 

 dark ashy grey ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of body tawny 

 buff, rather paler on the abdomen ; sides of body and flanks some- 

 what washed with brown ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts pale 

 tawny buff like the abdomen ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 like the breast, with ashy .bases; quills below dusky brown, ashy 

 along the inner edge. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 2-55, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather paler in colour. 

 Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2*45, tail 2-65, tarsus 

 0-8. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. 2 ad. 8k. Curytiba, Brazil (J. Natterer). SclaterColl. (Type 



of Poospiza oxyrhyncha). 



b. S ad.sk. Curytiba, May 28, 1820 (J.Nat- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



terer). 

 c.Ad.sk. Pay sandu, Uruguay (Gibson). SclaterColl. 



