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FRIXHILLIDJ?. 



hind neck and sides of neck ashy grey ; lores blackish, surmounted 

 by a broad white eyebrow which extends to the nape ; upper and 

 lower edge of eyelid white ; ear-coverts dark ashy brown ; cheeks 

 and throat white ; fore neck, breast, sides of body, and flanks pale ashy 

 grey ; abdomen whiter ; thighs and under tail-coverts white ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white, with brown bases ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " bill flesh-colour, the upper man- 

 dible and tip of both dark brown ; legs and feet slate-colour ; iris 

 light brown" (H. Durnford). Total length 5*1 inches, culmen 

 0-45, wing 2-5, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4-8 inches, 

 culmen 0*45, wing 2*45, tail 2, tarsus 065. 



Hah. Argentine Republic. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Cordova (Dr. A. Doering). Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Tucuman, June 2, 1887. H. Durnford, Esq. 



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95. SCHISTOSPIZA. 



Head of Schistospiza griseocristata. 

 Range. Bolivia. 



1. Schistospiza griseocristata. 



Emberiza griseocristata, D'Orb. 8f Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1837, p. 79; 



If Orb. Voy. Amer. Merid., Ois. p. 363, pi. 67. fig. 1 (1835-44) ; 



Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 215, note (1856). 

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

 Lophospiza griseocristata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 471 (1850). 

 Coryphospingus griseocristatus, Cab. Mvs. Hein. Th. i. p. 145, note 



(1850) ; Sal. Cat. Amer. B. p. 162 (1862) ; id. § Salv. Xomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 30 (1873) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 605 ; Salv. Ibis, 



1880, p. 354. 

 Passerina griseocristata, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 98, no. 7448 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above uniform light slaty grey ; lesser and 

 median wing-coverts like the back : greater series dusky, externally 

 like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky 

 brown, externally edged with slaty grey ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown, edged with ashy, the three outer ones with a large white 

 mark at the end of the inner web ; head crested like the back, but 

 the crest-feathers a little browner with blackish centres ; sides of 

 face and ear-coverts dusky slate-colour ; cheeks and under surface 



