on the breast, sides and flanks ; beak, blackish ; legs 

 and feet, dark-brown. Total length 3I in., tail ij in. 



Adult female : Above, brown, mottled with darker 

 brown on the back, and slightly tawny on the rump ; 

 wings blackish-brown, edged with lighter brown ; base 

 of middle primaries, white; margins of middle secon- 

 daries, whitish ; upper tail coverts and tail, brown, 

 edged with lighter brown ; top of head, brown, 

 minutely mottled with dusky ; under surface, yellowish 

 buff, paler in the sides and flanks. 



Habitat : Bolivia and Brazil. 



Thk Black-capped Finch. 



20. kS". pileata. 

 Adult male: Upper surface, pale brown, much 

 mottled with obscure blackish centres and light ashy 

 margins to the feathers : rump, tawny-brown ; wings, 

 blackish, edged with pale brown ; secondaries mar- 

 gined with whitish, and inner primaries white at the 

 base of outer webs, forming a prominent white patch ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail feathers dark brown edged 

 with paler brown, with whitish tips ; crown, nape, and 

 lores, black ; under surface^ pale reddish, darker on 

 the sides and flanks ; centre of abdomen, white ; unde'^ 

 tail-coverts pale reddish. Beak, horn colour, darker 

 at the base ; legs and feet, greyish-brown. Total 

 length 3f in., tail ij in. Habitat : Brazil. 



The Collared Finch. 

 (Bi,ack-Breasted Grosbeak. Lath). 

 21. 6\ cucullata. 

 Adult male: Crown of the head, nape, neck, man- 

 tle, upper and middle back, black ; lower back, ashy, 

 tinged with ochre ; a band of ochre crosses the rump ; 



