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84. EMBERIZOIDES. 



Emberizoides, Temm. PI. Colin, livr. 19 (1824) 

 Tardivola, Sxoains. Classif. B. ii. p. 281 (1837) . , 



Type. 

 E. macrurus. 



E. macrurus. 



Tail of Emberizoides macrurus. 

 Range. Over the greater part of South America. 



1. Emberizoides macrurus. 



Long-tailed Finch, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 310 (1783). 

 Fringilla macroura, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 918 (1788). 

 Passerina sphenura, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxv. p. 25 (1817) *. 

 Emberizoides macrurus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 360 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 482 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 30 ; Burm. Peis. La Plata- 



St. ii. p. 485 (1861) ; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 118 (1862) ; id. $ Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 237, 1879, 



p. 507 ; Salv. Ibis, 1885, p. 216. 

 Tardivola macroura, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 135, note (1850). 



Adult male. General colour above striped, brown with a faint 

 tinge of olive-yellow, all the feathers broadly centred with black, 

 less distinctly on the rump, which is more rufescent, the upper tail- 

 coverts also rufescent with more distinct streaks of black ; lesser 

 and median coverts olive-green ; greater coverts black, broadly edged 

 with olive-green ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, 

 edged with olive-green, browner on the inner greater coverts and 

 secondaries; tail-feathers dark brown, externally ashy brown or 

 ashy olive ; crown of head brown like the back and similarly streaked 

 with black ; lores white, as also a ring round the eye ; a faint eye- 

 brow of ashy ; below the eye a blackish streak ; ear-coverts ashy 

 brown, with faintly indicated whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks white, the 

 hinder part brown ; throat white, the lower throat, fore neck, and 

 chest pale brown, the breast and abdomen white ; sides of body and 

 flanks pale brown ; on the fore neck a few streaks of dusky brown ; 

 thighs brown like the flanks ; under tail-coverts dusky brown, 

 edged with whitish, somewhat tinged with fulvous and centred with 



* Vieillot's name has always been restricted to the Brazilian bird, but he 

 described a specimen from Cayenne, the same locality as that of Latham's 

 " Long-tailed Finch," and therefore P. sphenura of Vieillot is a pure synonym 

 of F. macroura of Gmelin. 



