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with it in the Sierra of Totoral, Catamarca, and subsequently about 20 

 miles north of Buenos Ay res. 



62. POOSPIZA ASSIMILIS, Cab. 

 (RED-FLANKED WARBLING FINCH.) 



Poospiza assimilis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 137 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 599 

 (Misiones). Poospiza lateralis, Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl. viii. p. 130 

 (Ooncepcion). 



Description. Above grey, slight superciliary mark whitish ; middle of back 

 and wings washed with rufous ; rump bright rufous ; tail blackish, two lateral 

 pairs of rectrices broadly tipped with white ; beneath grey, white in the middle 

 of the belly ; flanks and crissum bright rufous ; under wing-coverts greyish 

 white ; bill horn-colour, lower mandible yellowish ; feet pale brown : whole 

 length 5'0 inches, wing 2-5, tail 2'4. 



Hab. Northern Argentina. 



White found this species abundant amongst the thick weeds and 

 grass in the outskirts of Concepcion. He took it for P. thoradca, from 

 which it differs in its rufous rump. It is more like P. lateralis. 



63. POOSPIZA OENATA (Landb.). 

 (PRETTY WARBLING FINCH.) 



Phrygilus ornatus, Landb. Journ.f. Orn. 1865, p. 405. Poospiza ornata, Scl. 

 et Salv. NomencL p. 30. 



Description. Above grey; back more or less varied with chestnut; long 

 superciliaries ochreous white ; wings blackish, coverts edged with white ; tail 

 black, lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white; beneath dark chestnut, 

 lighter on the middle of the belly ; bill and feet dark brown : whole length 

 5-2 inches, wing 2-4, tail 2'3. Female similar, but paler in colour, especially 

 below. 



Hab. Mendoza. 



64. POOSPIZA TORQTIATA (d'Orb. et Lafr.). 

 (RINGED WARBLING FINCH.) 



Poospiza torquata, Sunn. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 484 (Mendoza); Scl. et Salv. 

 NomencL p. 30 ; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 599 (Santiago del Estero) ; Doriny, 

 Exp. al Eio Negro, Zool. p. 38 (E. Colorado). 



Description. Ahove grey; wings blackish, the greater wing-coverts tipped 

 with white; tail-feathers black, the two outer on each side tipped with 



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