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Hah. — Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentine Kepublic. 



Wing, G.25-7.40; tail, 5.40-6.20; calmen, 0.35-0.45; tarsus, 1.55-1.90 ; 

 middle toe, 1.10-1.20. Fourth to fifth quill longest ; first shortest ; outer 

 five with iuuer webs emarginated ; tail even. 



Adult — Above, slate-color (varying from bluisli to brownish), the 

 pileuin slightly darker; the scapulars with large rounded concealed 

 spots, and upper tail-coverts with smaller concealed bars of white ; 

 tail narrowly tipped with white and crossed by four to five regular, 

 continuous bands of black and slate-gray ; the bands and interspaces 

 of about equal width. Tibia3 plain rufous; rest of lower parts white; 

 the crissuui immaculate and the throat variegated only by flue dusky 

 shaffc-streaks ; auriculars and sides strongly tinged with rufous; breast, 

 abdomen, sides, and flanks marked with narrow transverse bars of rusty- 

 brown, grayish -brown, or rufous. 



Young. — Above, grayish-brown, the feathers very conspicuously bor- 

 dered terminally with rusty ; tail grayer, crossed by five regular and 

 continuous bands of dull black, nearly equal in width to the gray inter- 

 spaces (sometimes wider, sometim^^s narrower). TibicB uniform rufous; 

 other under parts white, sometimes tinged with yellowish-ochraceous 

 (especially on the under side of the wings) : the sides tinged with rufous ; 

 the breast and sides with rusty-brown markings in the form of sagittate 

 spots ; crissum immaculate ; throat and cheeks ditto, or with merely fine 

 shaft-streaks of blackish. 



In the coloration of the upper parts, bright-rufous auriculars, and in 

 the regularity and narrowness of the bars of the lower parts, as well as 

 in their color, the adult female of this species resembles very closely 

 the adult male of N. fringillarius of Europe, but differs in smaller size, 

 uniform rufous tibise, and more distinctly-banded tail. 



List of specimens in United States National Museum. 



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Other specimens examined. — In Coll. O. S£ilvin,3; G. X. Lawi'ence, 1; Pbilad. Acad. 

 3 ; N. Y. Mas., 1 ; Mus. Coiiip. ZooL, 1 ; total, 12. 



Measurements. 



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5.60 

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1.65 

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