794: FEINGILLID-S. 



Passerina guttata, Eydoux 8c Gerv. Mag. de Zool. 1836, p. 22, pi. 70. 



Cklorospiza alaudina, Gay, Faun. Chile, Zool. p. 357 (1847). 



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



Phrygilus alaudinus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 476 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. 

 Th. i. p. 135(1850); Burm. Th. Bras. iv. p. 233. note (1856); 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 552, 1860, p. 87 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. Ill 

 (1882) ; id. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 985, 1868, p. 568 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 89, no. 7313 (1870) ; Scl. $ Salv. Nomencl. Av. 

 Neotr. p. 31 (1873) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 421 ; Bed. Sf Tacz, 

 P. Z. S. 1884, p. 294, 1885, p. 85 ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 35 

 (1886). 



Phrygilus guttatus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 43 (1854). 



Adult male. General colour above bluish grey, the feathers of 

 the mantle and upper back broadly streaked with black ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform bluish grey; lesser 

 wing-coverts uniform bluish grey ; median coverts blackish, ex- 

 ternally grey ; greater coverts blackish, edged with hoary grey, or 

 whitish ashy; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, 

 edged with bluish grey, more hoary on the primaries and browner 

 on the inner secondaries ; tail-feathers blackish, all but the two 

 centre ones with a large white band across the greater part of the 

 inner web, the outer feathers also fringed with white at the ends ; 

 crown of head uniform bluish grey, as also the sides of the head, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, sides of neck, and fore neck ; lores, 

 feathers below the eye, and fore part of cheeks black ; breast and 

 abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks bluish grey ; thighs white, 

 ashy grey posteriorly ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries bluish grey ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge ; bill yellowish brown ; legs and toes light chrome-yellow ; iris 

 dark brown. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-9, tail 2, 

 tarsus 0*85. 



In seasonal plumage the adult male is altogether browner on the 

 upper surface, the feathers of the head and back broadly centred 

 with blackish brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform bluish 

 grey ; sides of face and under surface of body as in the bird 

 described above, but the flanks light brown, sometimes narrowly 

 streaked with dusky brown, but more often uniform. The brown 

 on the head rapidly disappears, but remains on the mantle for some 

 long time ; so that birds with the grey back, streaked with black 

 only, are rare in collections. 



Hah. Andes of Chili and Peru to Ecuador. 



a. S ad. sk. Chili. Lord Byron [C.]. 



b. $ ad. sk. Chili. Purchased. 



c. d. $ $ ad. sk. Chili. Sclater Coll. 



e. cf ad. sk. Chili (E. C. Reed). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



f,9- 6 2 a( i- 8 k. Coquimbo, Chili, Nov. 1881 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{A. H. Markham). 



h. S ad. sk. Lima, Peru ( TV. Nation). Sclater Coll. 



» tf ad. sk. Islav, Peru, Sept. 25, 1867 Sclater Coll. 



{H. Wkitely). 



