1918.] Embernagra platensis audits Allies. 3 



b. Upper surface darker green ; buff ou 



under surface much restricted ; 



centre of abdomen white E. platensis paragumjensis, 



B. Back narrowly lined with black. [p- ^ • 



c. Throat grey ; no supraloral streak . . E. clumetorum, p. 6. 



d. Throat pale fawn-colour; a pale 



supraloral streak E. longicauda, p. 7. 



C. Back uniform, not lined with black. 



e. Upper surface olive-green ; throat 



and breast silvery-grey; abdomen 

 white ; under tail-coverts isabel- 



line-buflF E. olivascens, p. 8. 



/. Upper surface olive-grey ; throat, 

 breast, and abdomen slate-grey, the 

 last tinged with ochreous-buff ; 

 under tail-coverts ochreous-buff . . E. gossei, p. 9. 



Embernagra platensis platensis. 



UEmherise a cinq couleurs Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. 

 1778, p. 364. 



Plata Bunting Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, 1783, p. 210 : 

 Buenos Ayres — River Plata. Founded on Montbeillard. 



Emberiza platensis Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 1789, p. 886 : 

 Buenos Ayres — ad fluvium Plata. Based on Latham. 



Tanagra fabialatu Less. Traits d'Orn, 1831, p. 465 : 

 Mas. de Paris; de la Plata — nomeu nudum, cf. Bonap. 

 Consp. Av. i. p. 483. 



Embernagra viridis Bonap. Consp. Av. i. 1850, p. 483 : 

 La Plata; Burmeister, J. f. O. 1860, p. 256 : La Plata. 



Limnospiz a platensis Cab. Mus. Hein. i. 1850, p. 136. 



Embernagra platensis Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus, xii. 

 1888, p. 758, part; Scl. & Huds. Argent. Orn. i. 1888, 

 p. 62; C. H. B. Grant, Ibis, 1911, p. 100 : part, specimens 



a-j- 



Adult male. Upper surface green, streaked with black on 

 the head and more broadly on the back ; sides of rump 

 buff ; short feathers round the eye blackish ; throat slate- 

 grey ; breast very pale grey washed with buff, the buff 

 becoming deeper in colour on the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts. "■ Iris brown ; legs and feet light horn- 

 colour '' (F. Withington). 



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