1918.] Embernagra platensis and its Allies. 7- 



of tlie supraloral streak, and in having the throat slate-grey 

 instead of fawn-colour. The ear-coverts are rust-brown, the 

 breast is rather paler, and the abdomen is cream-white but 

 lacks the pinkish isabelline wash ; under tail-coverts, under 

 wing-coverts, under surface of flight-quills, and lower aspect 

 of tail similar to E. longicauda. 



Total length 207 mm.j exposed culraeu 15, wing 94, 

 tail 92j tarsus 30, middle toe with claw 27, hind toe with 

 claw 20, 



This bird may, or may not, be the true E. dumetorum of 

 Lesson, which name was introduced for a bird from Brazil, 

 but it dijffers from the other members of this group, and, as 

 it is said to come from Brazil, it may as well bear Lesson's 

 name until time and circumstances may afford us further 

 information. 



Habitat. Brazil. 



Embernagra longicauda. (Plate I. fig. 1.) 



Embernagra longicauda Strickl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 

 xiii. 1844, p. 420 : South America. 



Limnospiza longicauda Cab. jNIus. Hein. i. 1850, p. 136. 



Embernagra olivascens Sharpe (nee d'Orb.), Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. xii. 1888, p. 759. 



Adult. Head, back, and scapulars dull green with minute, 

 almost obsolete, dark shaft-lines to the feathers; bri^^liter 

 and more yellowish green on the wings and tail; inner webs 

 of flight-quills dark brown, the tail-feathers showing traces 

 of obsolete cross-bars ; a supraloral streak and the short 

 feathers round the eye, as well as the throat, pale fawn- 

 colour ; lores blackish ; cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck, 

 and sides of breast dusky greyish brown, like the sides of 

 the body; abdomen white tinged with pinkish isabelline, 

 becoming buff on the lower flanks and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts yellowish, more or less tinged with 

 whitish; under surface of quills brown with buff inner 

 edges ; lower aspect of tail yellowish green. 



The following cliaracters separate this bird from all its 

 congeners : the pale fawn-coloured supraloral streak and 



