AVES FRINGILLID^. 84 I 



A winter specimen is similar but suffused with gray and brownish. 

 Geographical Range. — Patagonia (Santa Cruz) and Falkland Islands. 

 Not seen by the members of the Princeton Expedition. 



Phrygilus melanoderus princetonianus Scott. 



Phrygilus priucetouiauus Scott, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, x. p. Ixiv. 1900 

 (Cheike, Patagonia). 



Description. — Adult male, 7698 P. U. O. C, Cheike, Patagonia, January 

 16, 1898, A. E. Colburn. Total length, 5.75 inches; wing, 3.62; culmen, 

 .40; tail, 2.40; tarsus, .90. Similar to P. melanoderus but back largely 

 gray and wings with much more canary yellow on the primaries and 

 coverts ; the primaries are white on the basal half of the inner web tinged 

 with yellow, and bright yellow on the outer web from base almost to tip ; 

 the coverts are largely canary yellow, making the closed wing appear almost 

 entirely of this color, except the tips of the primary coverts and alula 

 which are black and the olive green and gray edgings to the secondaries. 



Female (7697 P. U. O. C, Cheike, Patagonia, January 16, 1898) quite 

 different, upper parts streaked black and gray, rump largely olive and 

 winpfs washed with olive, but otherwise like those of the male; below, 

 throat white finely streaked with dusky, breast and sides of neck strongly 

 streaked black and white, breast washed with yellow, abdomen white, 

 flanks with dusky streaks ; tail as in the male. 



Geographical Range. — Patagonia (Cheike, Santa Cruz). 



A number of specimens of this subspecies were secured at Cheike, 

 January 15 to 18, representing both sexes, but the members of the expe- 

 dition failed to find it at any other locality. 



Phrygilus xanthogrammus (Gray). 

 Chlorospiza xanthograninia Gray in Darwin's Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 196, 

 pi. xxxiii, 1841 (East Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego). 

 Description. — Adult male, 82934 Mus. Comp. Zool. Punta Arenas, 

 Chili, November 18, 1914, R. H. Be'ck. Total length, 6.40 inches; wing, 

 4.05; culmen, .50; tail, 2.52; tarsus, .95. Clear blue gray above, most 

 of the feathers olive green in the center ; forehead yellow-olive ; short 

 superciliaries and malar stripes yellow ; breast blue gray with olive centers 

 to the feathers, more or less yellow in the middle, throat black bordered 

 by yellowish white and abdomen and under tail coverts white; wings 



