790 FEINGILLID^;. 



a. Ad. sk. Falkland Islands. Antarctic Expedition. 



fe.cjimm.sk. Falkland Islands. J.MacgiUivray, Esq. [P.]. 



c. cJ ad. sk. Hermit Island. Antarctic Expedition. 



(Type of species.) 



d. cJ ad. sk. S. Martin's Core, Hermit Antarctic Expedition. 



Island. 



e. Juv. sk. Tierra del Fuego (C. Bar- Voy.H.M.S. ' Beagle.' 



win). 



f. Ad. sk. Chili. T. Edmunds [C.]. 



6. Phrygilus fruticeti. 



Fiingilla fruticeti, KM. Kvpf. Vi,g. P- 18, pi. 23. fig. 1 (1832). 



Fringilla erythrorhyncka, Less. L'Inst. ii. p. 310 (1834). 



Ernberiza luctuosa, ~ Eydoux # Gerv. Mag. de Zuol. lfc>30, Aves, p. 24, 



pi. 71. 

 Phrygilus fruticeti, Darwin, Voy. 'Beagle? Birds, p. 94 (1841) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 470 (1850) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 233, note (1856) ; 



id. La-Plata Beis. ii. p. 487 (1861); Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. Ill 



(1862); id. § Salt. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 985, 1869, p. 152; Gray, 



Hancl-l. B. ii. p. 89, no. 7319 (1870) ; Scl. # Sal v. Nomencl. Av. 



Neotr. p. 31 (1873) ; Durnf. Ibis, 1878, p. 393 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 



1881, p. 7 ; Scl. t. c. p. 486 ; Salt: Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 228 (1882) ; 



Tacz. Orn. Perm, iii. p. 37 (1886) ; Set. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 397. 

 Euspiza fruticeti, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 376 (1844). _ 

 Chlorospiza erytkrorhynca, Gay, Hist. Chile, Zool, i. p. 358 (1847). 

 Rbopcspina fruticeti, "Cab. Mus. Hein. Tb. i. p. 135 (1850). 



Adult male. General colour above slaty grey, the mantle and 

 upper back streaked -with black ; the lower back and rump uniform ; 

 lesser -wing-coverts ashy grey ; median coverts black, with a large 

 white spot at the end of the outer web ; greater coverts black, edged 

 with ashy, with a smaller white spot at the end of the outer web ; 

 bastard-wing black, fringed with white near the end ; primary-coverts 

 and quills black, edged with ashy grey, more hoary on the primaries ; 

 upper tail-coverts ashy like the back, with lighter grey edges ; tail- 

 feathers black, edged with ashy grey, the outer ones narrowly fringed 

 with white at the ends ; crown of head slaty grey, the feathers rather 

 broadly centred with black ; the hind neck more minutely spotted ; 

 lores and feathers round eye black ; eyelid white above and below ; 

 ear-coverts ashy grey, as also the cheeks, sides of neck, and under 

 surface of the body ; fore part of cheeks, throat, and fore neck black, 

 the chest also slightly mottled with black ; lower breast and abdo- 

 men white ; sides of body and flunks slaty grey washed with brown ; 

 thighs slaty grey ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries pale slaty grey ; quills below dusky, ashy along the 

 inner edge : " bill flesh-colour with a tinge of yellow ; legs darker 

 flesh-colour, toes light brown ; iris wood-brown " (H. Durnford). 

 Total length 6*5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-8, tail 2-9, tarsus - S5. 



In seasonal plumage all the feathers of the upper surface are ob- 

 scured by brown edges, and the black of the throat by ashy-grey 

 margins ; lores, eyelid, and a narrow line along the cheeks white ; 

 the grey margins on the wings and tail broader and more conspi- 

 cuous, and the latter distinctly edged with ashy round the tips. 



llab. Andes of Chili and Patagonia, extending to Peru aud Bolivia. 



