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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS : ZOOLOGY. 





Fig. 405. Phrygihis patagonicns, 9 , 7565. About three quarters natural size. 



The Princeton Expedition obtained it at Punta Arenas, December 12; 

 Cape Fairweather, July 24; Coy Inlet, November 12; Santa Cruz, Feb- 

 ruary 25. 



Phrygilus melanoderus melanoderus (Quoy and Gaimard). 



Emberiza melanoderus Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, Zool. p. 109 



(1824) (Falkland Islands). 

 Melanodera typica Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 95 (Falkland Islands). 



Description. — Adult male, 10692 A. N. S. Phila., South America. Total 

 length, 6.20 inches; wing, 3.85; culmen, .40; tail, 2.58; tarsus, .88. 

 Above, cap gray, back dull olive green with more or less gray tips and 

 bases to the feathers ; wings dull blackish with yellow olive edgings, the 

 two outermost pairs of tail feathers almost entirely light yellow, brighter 

 on the outer web, the next pair dusky with a yellow area on the middle 

 of the inner web, others dusky with yellow-olive edgings ; superciliaries, 

 area below the eye, and malar stripes white, lores black, ear coverts gray ; 

 throat black ; rest of lower parts yellow, flanks grayish. 



