42 Mr. P. L. Sclater's Revision of the 



clature ; yet, as the Emberiza hrasiliensis is referred by Von 

 Pelzeln to the next species, I have thought it better to revert to 

 the older Linnean term flaveola for the present bird. 



This species has a wide range in South America. I cannot 

 distinguish specimens obtained by Mr. Wyatt in the valley 

 of the Magdalena'^' from skins from Rio and Minas. It also 

 occurs in Bogota collections ; and I have no doubt it was upon 

 a somewhat brightly coloured but immature bird from the latter 

 locality that Sycalis aureipectus of Bonaparte was established. 

 M. Jules Verreaux is of the same opinion on this point ; 

 and the specimen referred to S. aureipectus in my American 

 Catalogue is certainly only a young male of S. flaveola. 



There can be no doubt about the occurrence of this Finch in 

 Jamaica. It is mentioned by Gosse; and I have skins from Ja- 

 maica which agree in every respect with Brazilian specimens. 

 I believe, however, that it is in all probability an imported 

 species ; and this seems to result from what Mr. Gosse has said 

 of it. 



2. Sycalts pelzelni. 

 Chuy, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 479. 

 Passerinaflava, Vieill. Euc. Meth. p. 932 (partim). 

 Sycalis chloropsis, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, pp. 161 et 

 632. 



Sycalis hrasiliensis, Pelzeln, Orn. Bras, p. 232. 

 Crithagrat hrasiliensis, Darwin, Zool. Beagle, ii. p. 88(?). 



Similis S. flaveola, sed paulo minor, dorso magis distincte striato 

 et fronte magis fulva neque aurantiaca : long, tota 4*9, alse 

 2*8, cauda3 2'0. Fem. supra fusca, omnino nigro striata, 

 uropygio et rectricum marginibus exteruis vix virentibus : 

 subtus alba, pectore et lateribus nigro striolatis : subalaribus 

 et rectricum remigumque marginibus internis flavican- 

 tibus. 

 Hah. Inner Brazil, Paraguay, and La Plata. 

 Loca exacta. Cuyaba (Natt.) ; Paraguay (Azara) ; vie. of 

 Buenos Ayres (Haslehust). 



This southern representative of S. flaveola was at first wrongly 

 referred by myself and Mr. Salvin to S. chloropsis. It is con- 



* Cf. Wyatt, ' Ibis,' 1871, p. 328. 



