AVES FRINGILLID^. 847 



This specimen, as well as specimens of the other species in non-nuptial 

 plumage, is much shaded with cinnamon brown above, while the tertials 

 are edged with the same. 



GeograpJiical Range. — Argentina and eastern Patagonia (San Antonio- 

 Peters). 



Not found in the territory covered by the Princeton explorations. 



Hudson's account of this species is as follows : "This pretty little bird 

 is exceedingly lively in its motions, social and quarrelsome in habits, and 

 in winter often goes in flocks of several hundred individuals. The flock 

 is usually widely scattered when on the ground and bushes ; and when 

 flying the birds incessantly pursue each other through the air, uttering all 

 the time a soft chirp. The song of the male is the sweetest I have heard in 

 Patagonia, with two exceptions — that of the Cardinal amarillo [Gubeniatrix 

 cristatella) and of the Calandria blanca [Mimus triurns). In summer, when 

 these Finches live in pairs thinly scattered over the country, the song of 

 the male is the first indication of the approach of day. But in winter, 

 when they live in companies, their great singing-time is in the evening, 

 when the flock has gathered in some thick-foliaged bush, which they have 

 chosen for a winter roosting-place. This winter-evening song is very 

 different from that heard in summer, the notes appearing sharper, and 

 uttered in a wild and rapid manner. A little after sunset they burst into 

 a concert, which lasts several minutes, sinking and growing louder by 

 turns." (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 537.) 



Genus GUBERNATRIX Lesson. 



Type. 



Gubernatrix Lesson, Compl. Buff. viii. 



p. 295 (1837) Coccotliyaustes cristata W€\\\oi. 



Gubernatrix cristata (Vieill.). 



Coccothranstes cristata Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiii. p. 531, 181 7 

 (Paraguay), based on the "Crestudo amarillo" of Azara. 

 Description.— MuM male, P. U. O. C., La Plata, March 1898. Total 

 length, 8.00 inches ; wing, 3.80 ; culmen, .60 ; tail, 3.68 ; tarsus, .95. Above, 

 yellow olive, feathers of the back with central black streaks and a black crest 

 on the crown ; a broad chrome yellow band from nostril over the eye ; lores 

 dusky ; under parts lemon chrome with a black throat patch, and sides of 

 body and breast shaded with olive, wings blackish, bordered with pale 



