792 FRINGILLID.E. 



8. Phrygilus unicolor. 



Emberiza unicolor, D'Orb. # Lafr. Mag. tie Zool. 1837, p. 79. 

 Phrygilus unicolor, Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. x.p, 290 (1844) ; Jard. Cotifr. 



Orn. 1849, p. 44, pi. 20 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 376 (1850) ; Tschudi §■ 



Cab. Faun. Peruan. p. 219 (1855); Scl. P.Z. S. i860, p. 76; id. 



Cat. Amer. B. p. 110 (1862) ; id. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 785; 



Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 128 ; Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 31 



(1873) ; Salv. $ Godm. Ibis, 1880, p. 122 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 228 (1882); Perl. $ Tacz. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 85; Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1886, p. 397. 

 Phrygilus rusticus, Cab. Areh.f. Naturg. x. p. 290 (1844) ; Burm. 



Th. Bras. iii. p. 233 (1856) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 89, no. 7315 



(1870) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 38 (1880). 

 Euspiza unicolor, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 17 (1844). 

 Euspiza rustica, Gray, t. c. p. 17 (1844). 

 Passerculus geospizopsis, Bp. C. B. xxxvii. p. 921 (1853) ; Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1856, p. 306. 

 Phrygilus geospizopsis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 160; id. Cat. Amer. B. 



p. 110(1862). 

 Chlorospiza plunibea, Philijipi fy Landb. Arch. f. Naturg. 18G4, 



p. 47. 



Adult male. General colour above uniform slaty grey ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts, bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged with ashy grey, 

 lighter and more hoary on the primaries ; tail-feathers black, edged 

 with ashy grey; sides of face and under surface uniform slaty grey, 

 rather paler than the back ; under wing-coverts aud axillaries like 

 the breast; quills blackish below, ashy along the inner edge: 

 " bill nearly black ; legs light brown ; feet dark brown ; iris hazel "' 

 (L. Fraser). Total length 5 - 7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3*6, tail 2*4, 

 tarsus 0*9. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, broadly streaked with black down the centre of the feathers, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ashy grey, the latter with dusky 

 centres to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts ashy grey ; median and 

 greater coverts black, edged with ashy grey, whitish towards the 

 ends, browner on the inner greater coverts, which are like the 

 inner secondaries ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 edged with ashy or whity brown, especially the inner secondaries ; 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with ashy grey ; crown of head like the 

 back, and streaked with black like the back ; lores ashy whitish ; 

 feathers round eye white ; ear-coverts and sides of face light ashy, 

 slightly streaked with dusky, the fore part of the cheeks whitish ; 

 throat light ashy, whiter on the chin ; lower throat, fore neck, and 

 under surface of body dull ashy white, broadly streaked with 

 blackish brown ; abdomen whiter ; sides of body and flanks washed 

 with brown and broadly streaked with black ; thighs white ; under 

 tail-coverts white, with dusky blackish centres : under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries ashy grey, with lighter ashy bases ; quills 

 below dusky brown, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 6 - 2 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3 # 7, tail 2-6, tarsus 1. 



