1871.] 



MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE BIRDS OF LIMA. 



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with low bushes, a few miles from Lima. It was feeding on the 

 ground, after the manner of a Zonotrichia. Subsequently, I have 

 made hundreds of visits to this plain, and have shown the example 

 to many sportsmen, but have neither seen it again myself nor been 

 able to obtain any information respecting it. I am therefore of 

 opinion that its occurrence in this plain was accidental, and hope to 

 discover its true abode in some of the valleys of the Andes." — W. N. 



Mr. Nation calls this bird " erythrorhynchus, Lesson," referring 

 it to the Fringilla erythrorhyncha of Lesson (Journ. de l'lnst. 1834, 

 p. 316 ; et Zool. Thetis, ii. p. 324). This is doubtless correct; but 

 the name of Kittlitz, usually employed, is older (1832). 



This bird ranges from Chili as far north as Ecuador, where Fraser 

 met with it on the plateau of Riobamba. 



2. Spermophila telasco, Lesson; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, p. 7. 



" This is a very familiar and social little bird, frequenting our 

 gardens, orchards, and road-sides, and associating with Volatinia and 

 Zonotrichia. The nest is usually in a low bush near the road-side 

 or garden- walk. The eggs are three in number, of a pale greenish 

 blue, irregularly marked with brown. This bird feeds on seeds and 

 insects. Its irides are bluish black. The plumage of the sexes has 

 no perceptible difference." — W. N. 



Euscarthm us fittviceps. 



3. EuSCARTHMUS FULVICEPS, Sp. 110V. 



Fuscus : pileo toto et capitis lateribus fulvescenti-rufis : alarum 



marginibus externis pallidioribus fere ochraceis : subtus albus, 



pectoris lateribus cinereo perfusis : subalaribus limonaceo- 



flavis : remigum marginibus internis ru/escenti-ochraceis : ros- 



tro superiore fusco, inferiore albicante : pedibus obscure car- 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1871, No. XXXII. 



