838 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



crossing the Andes, from Santiago to Mendoza, I found this bird numerous 

 on the Argentine side, where it feeds on the ground on the barren moun- 

 tain-slopes." (Ibis, pp. 16-17, 1897.) 



Phrygilus patagonicus Lowe. 



Phrygiliis gayi patagonicits Lowe, Ibis, 1923, p. 515. 

 P. aldunatei Auct. nee Des Murs. 



Description. — Adult male, 7563 P. U. O. C, Cape Fairweather, 

 July 24, 1896. Total length, 6.20 inches; wing, 3.80; culmen, .48; tail, 

 2.80; tarsus, .85. Head and throat all around bluish slate, forming a 

 hood, lores blackish; above bright yellow-olive, below olive yellow, lower 



Fig. 402. Phrygilus patagonicus, (f, 7992. About three quarters natural size. 



abdomen, flanks and under tail coverts pale gray or grayish white ; upper 

 tail coverts bluish slate; wings and tail externally bluish slate, concealed 

 portions of feathers blackish. 



Female much duller ; hood pale gray with dark shaft spots or streaks, 

 and a dusky malar streak, body above dull olive, below brownish orange on 

 breast fading to isabelline on flanks and white on middle of abdomen and 

 under tail coverts. 



Differs from P. gayi in much larger size, different color of back and 

 abdomen and the very different coloration of the female. It is clearly 



