288 FRINGILLID^I. 



Genus PSEUDOCHLORIS, Sharpe. 



Pseudochloris uropygialis (D'Orb. fy Lajr.). 



Pseudochloris uropygialis. Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 776 (1888) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 119 (1899) j Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 325 

 (1909). 



An egg of the Grey-backed Seed-Finch is of a regular, rather 

 pointed, oval form, and very slightly glossy. The ground-colour is 

 pale bluish-white speckled all over with brown and grey, the markings 

 being rather more numerous round the larger end. It measures 

 83 by -6. 



1. Peru (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Pseudochloris aureiventris (Philippi $ Landb.). 



Pseudochloris aureiveutris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 777 (1888) ; 

 James, New List Chilian Birds, p. 2 (1892); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 

 p. 325 (1909). 



The eggs of the Yellow-bellied Seed-Finch are of a regular oval 

 shape and slightly glossy. They are white, sparingly speckled on 

 the broader half of the eh ell with chestnut-brown and lilac. Six 

 examples measure from '7 to "75 in length, and from *54 to '58 in 

 breadth. 



These eggs are of a totally different type to that referred to 

 P. uropygialis. 



3. Central Chile (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 



3. Central Chile (Landbeck). Berkeley James Coll. 



Genus PHRYGILUS, Cab. 



Phrygilus gayi (Eydoux $ Gervais), 



Phrygilus gayi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 781 (1888) ; Gossc, in 

 Fitzgerald's Highest Andes, App. C, p. 347 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 

 v. p. 326 (1909). 



Three eggs of Gay's Finch resemble those of P. melanoderus. 

 They are greenish-blue, spotted and speckled with dull chestnut- 

 brown and lilac-grey. They measure respectively : -82 by -63 

 8 by -63 ; '8 by -65. 



3. Puente del Inca, Andes E. A. Fitzgerald, Esq. TP.]. 



(P.H. Gosse). 



