832 PAFACONIAN l':\ I'lU)! TICtNS : /.OOl.OCW 



"In wiiitor-liinc in Aiauct) 1 trcciiicnlly saw tlicm feeding on the top- 

 most twigs of low forest trees, just like a lloek of Siskins tlo here on the 

 aKIer. TheN' ct)niiHenee to sing at Maquegua (Araueo) al)i)ut the begin- 

 ning of August, antl sing a good (.leal through the summer. Their song- 

 is \ er\- pleasing antl mueh esteemed. Their call-nt)te is the double whistle 

 oi the Siskin. '["lie\' prefer woodeil (.listricts, and are not ft)unil in ver\' 

 open localities, and appear capable o\' fnuling subsistence in the forest for 

 a large j)roportion of the year, if not altogether." (Ibis, pp. 21-22, 1897.) 



SriNiTs iCTERici'S iCTERicus (Lichtensteiu). 



/'"riiigi/Zii indgc/Ziiiiiia V^ieillot, Ncn'. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. \ii. p. 168 (1817). 

 /'Wi/g/V/d ictci'ica Lichtenstein, Ver/. Doubl. p. 26, 1823. 



Hcscriplio)!. — Adult male, 10282 A. N. S. Phila., "South America." 

 Total length, 4.20 inches ; wing, 2.55 ; culmen, .38; tail, 1.60; tarsus, .50. 

 1 leail all around and upper breast black ; back yellowish olive with only a 

 sli«;ht indication of darker centers to the feathers; under parts and rum]> 

 blight golden _\ello\\ as well as the edging to greater cox'erts aiul the 

 speculum on the primaries ; ui)per tail coverts yellow olive, wing feathers 

 black except as noted, tail black with bn^iil basal area bright \ello\v, bill 

 light, feet black. 



I'cmale witluuit the black hood, jialer and greener aboxc and pale 

 \cllow bcUw\, shaded with oli\e and becoming white on the middle of 

 the abdomen. 



Cfi'ograp/iica/ Kiiiiow — Southern Hra/il and Paraguay through Argentina 

 to Patagonia (Rio Negro and Chupat). Does not range to the southern 

 region explored bv the Princeton party. 



r.enus SICALIS Boie. 



Type. 

 S/i(i//s Boie. Isis. 1828, p. 324 Friiigilla Jiavcola Linnaus 



SiCAi.is arvi-:nsis ar\i-:nsis (Kittlitz). 



Frhigilla anrj/s/s Kittlitz, Mem. Acad. Petersb. ii. p. 134, tab. 4 (1835) 



(Chile). 



/\-Si'n/>//o/i. — Adult male. Argentina, Pebruary 1895, Princeton Pni- 



versity collection. Total length, 5.00 inches; wing, 2.75; culmen, .35; 



tail, 2.00; tarsus, .68. Abcn-e brown tinged with oli\e, becoming plain 



