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black, tertials and secondaries, coverts bordered with blue gray, outer 

 primaries with olive yellow; tail with middle feathers black bordered with 

 gray and olive, two outermost pairs largely white on inner web, next pair 

 with a yellowish white patch. 



Geographical Range. — Southern Chili, Patagonia and Falkland Islands. 



Not seen by the Princeton naturalists. 



Phrygilus carbonarius (d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye). 



Emberiza carbonaria d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, Mag. de Zool. 1837, P- 79 

 (Patagonia). 



Descyiptio7i. — Adult male, 284106, Biol. Survey Colin., U. S. Dept. of 

 Agriculture, Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 13, 1920, 

 Total length, 5.40 inches; wing, 3.00; culmen, .40; tail, 2.40; tarsus, .78. 

 Above, dark plumbeous to plumbeous gray, darkest on the crown, edges of 

 feathers minutely frosted with brown, those of the back with brownish tips 

 and black shaft streaks ; wings and tail black fading to dull brown, edges 

 of remiges and wing coverts pale gray ; beneath, blackish plumbeous, flanks 

 frosted with pale gray; bill and feet yellow. 



Female entirely different (1806 Colin. Alexander Wetmore, same 

 locality as above, November 4, 1903, S. A. Adams); drab above with 

 brown centers or shaft stripes to the feathers, rump washed with brown, 

 wings and tail dull brownish black, the former slightly edged with paler ; 

 below, dull white with narrow brown shaft stripes to feathers of breast, 

 sides, flanks and under tail coverts, bill and feet as in male. 



Geographical Range. — Bolivia and Argentina to Patagonia (Rio Negro). 



Does not range south as far as the region explored by the Princeton 

 expeditions. 



Phrygilus fruticeti (Kittlitz). 



Fnngilla fniticefi YJxWWiz, Kupf Voy. 18, 1833 (near Valparaiso). 

 Fnngilla erythrorJiyncha Lesson, L'Inst. ii. p. 316 (1834). 

 Emberiza luctuosa Eydoux and Gervais, Mag. de Zool. 1836, pi. 71 (Chili). 

 Description. — Adult male, 7569 P. U. O. C, Upper Rio Chico, Pata- 

 gonia, March 24, 1897. Total length, 7.30 inches; wing, 4.00; culmen, 

 .50 ; tail, 3.20 ; tarsus, .95. Above, general color bluish slate, feathers of the 

 crown and back with broad black centers and brown tips or edgings ; wings 

 and tail black with brownish or whitish edgings; greater and median wing 

 coverts white at the tip, forming two wing bars ; below, throat and upper 



