83. COBYPHOSPIZA. 767 



d. S ad. sk. Conckitas, Bueno9 Ayres ( W. H. Sclater Coll. 



Hudson). 



e. Ad. sk. Buenos Ayres (Haslekust). Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



f. Ad. sk. Campaiia Railway, Buenos Ayres, H. Dumford, Esq. 



Julie 24. [C.]. 



g. Ad. st. Maldonado. Sir W. Burnett and 



Admiral Fitzroy [P.]. 

 h. Ad.sk. Maldonado (C. Darwin). Voy. H.M.S. 'Beagle.' 



». Ad. sk. Monte "Video (C. Darwin). Voy. H.M.S. 'Beagle.' 



( Type of Ammodromus 

 longicaudatus, Gould.) 



2. Coryphospiza melanotis. 



Ernberizoides melanotis, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 114. fig. 1 (1824) > 

 Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 8G0 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 483 (1850) | 

 Burnt. Th. Bras. Th. iii. p. 226 (1856) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 118 

 (1862); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 90, no. 7330 (1870); Pelz. Qrn. 

 Bras. p. 230 (1871); Scl. 8,- Sal v. Nontencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 

 (1873). 



Leptonyx melanotis, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 314 (1837). 



Coryphospiza melanotis, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 47 (1840). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, broadly streaked with 

 chestnut, blackish along the centres of the feathers ; these black 

 streaks absent on the lower back and rump, but strongly developed 

 on the under tail- coverts ; scapulars rather browner : lesser wing- 

 coverts olive-yellow ; median and greater coverts dusky brown, ex- 

 ternally reddish brown, the latter series more ashy ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, aud quills dusky brown, externally olive-yellow, 

 browner on the secondaries : first primary margined with white ; 

 centre tail-feathers reddish brown, lighter brown on the edges, the 

 remainder black with an ashy-brown spot at the end of the inner 

 web, the outer ones having a white spot at the end, increasing in 

 extent towards the outermost and extending some way along its 

 outer web ; crown of head blackish, the feathers edged with ashy 

 grey ; hind neck ashy grey, with a few reddish-brown streaks ; lores, 

 feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts black, surmounted by a 

 broad eyebrow of buffy white ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of 

 body buffy white, with a black patch on each side of the upper breast, 

 the adjacent feathers mottled, being black internally and white ex- 

 ternally ; sides of body and flanks streaked with rufous-brown and 

 black centres to the feathers ; thighs and under tail-coverts buffy 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries bright yellow, especially 

 on the edge of the wing ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-35, tail 1'8, 

 tarsus 0-7. 



Hab. Southern Brazil. 



a. Ad. sk. Southern Brazil {J. Natterer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



