AVES — FRINGILLID^.. 837 



Phrvgilus gavi (Eydoux and Gervais). 



Fniigii/a gayi YLyd. and Gervais, Mag. de Zool. 1834, pi. 23 (Chili). 

 Fnugilla formosa Gould, Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 93, 1841 (Tierra del 



Fuego). 

 Chlorospiza aldititatei Ues Murs, Gay's Hist. Chile, Zool. 1847, '• P- 356 

 (Chili). 



Description. — Adult male, 7549 P. U. O. C, Punta Arenas, Chili, De- 

 cember 24, 1897. Total length, 5.65 inches; wing, 3.25; culmen, .50; 

 tail, 2.30; tarsus, .88. Head and neck all around bluish slate forming a 

 hood; back rich orange brown (antique brown of Ridgway), passing to 

 bright greenish orange (aniline yellow of Ridgway) on rump, and to olive 

 green on hind neck ; wings and tail externally bluish slate, concealed por- 

 tions of feathers blackish, remiges edged with light gray ; under parts except 

 throat wax yellow; thighs gray; under tail coverts gray and white. 



Female similar but duller, back olive green, under parts duller yclkn\-, 

 hood paler gray. 



Geographical Range. — Chili and Patagonia (Lake Nahuel Huapi to 

 Tierra del Fuego). 



Mr. Peters found it "a fairly common denizen of the brushy pastures 

 and open woods about Lake Nahuel Huapi, but does not extend into the 

 arid region to the eastward." (Bull. M. C. Z. Ixv. No. 9, p. 334.) 



Found abundantly by the Princeton naturalists at Punta Arenas. De- 

 cember 12 to January 4, both adults and young; the latter are duller than 

 the female, more olive on the breast, throat yellowish with dark malar 

 stripes well developed and flanks darker. 



A. A. Lane, describing its occurrence in Chili, says: "I did not observe 

 these Finches until I went to the province of Arauco, north of which the)' 

 do not occur on the lowlands ; at least so I was told. They are more 

 plentiful in the south, especially in Chiloe, and on the adjacent mainland. 

 Their local name is 'Chanchito' ('little pig'). 



"The favorite haunts of these birds are the sides of ravines or abrupt 

 hollows, covered with thick bush of a seed-bearing nature, and small cliffs 

 covered with creepers. They do not occur on open stretches, but are 

 often numerous in partially cleared localities, where coppice has taken the 

 place of the large timber previously cut down or burnt. I never could 

 find their nests. I frequently saw them in confinement, in aviaries. When 



