288 FRINGILLID 2. 
Genus PSEUDOCHLORIS, Sharpe. 
Pseudochloris uropygialis (D’Orb. & Lafr.). 
Pseudochloris uropygialis, Sharpe, Cat, Birds B. M. xii. p. 776 (1888) ; 
Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 119 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 825 
(1909). 
An egg of the Grey-backed Seed-Finch is of a regular, rather 
pointed, “oval form, and very slightly glossy. The eround- colour is 
pale bluish-white speckled all over with brown and grey, the markings 
being rather more numerous round the larger end. It measures 
83 by 6. 
1. Peru (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 
Pseudochloris aureiventris (Philippi §: Landb.). 
Pseudochloris aureiventris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 777 (1888) ; 
James, New List Chilian Birds, p. 2 (1892); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 
p. 325 (1909). 
The eggs of the Yellow-bellied Seed-Finch are of a regular oval 
shape and slightly glossy. They are white, sparingly speckled on 
the broader half of the shell with chestnut-brown and lilac. . Six 
examples measure from ‘7 to ‘75 in length, and from *54 to °58 in 
breadth. 
These eggs are of a totally different type to that referred to 
P. uropygialis. 
3. Central Chile (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 
3. Central Chile (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 
Genus PHRYGILUS, Cab. 
Phrygilus gayi (Lydoua § Gervais), 
Phrygilus gayi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 781 (1888) ; Gosse, in 
itzger rald’s Highest Andes, App. C, p. 847 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 
v. p. 826 (190y). 
Three eggs of Gay’s Finch resemble those of P. melanoderus. 
They are greenish-blue, spotted and speckled with dull chestnut- 
brown and lilac-grey. They measure respectively: -82 by -63 
8 by °63; °8 by 65. 
3. Puente del Inca, Andes E. A. Fitzgerald, Esq. [P.]. 
(P. H. Gosse). 
