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the ear is covered with dusky feathers, and all the 

 under parts of the body are ashy. 



According to D' Azara this species frequents hedges 

 and thickets, and is often seen on the ground : it is 

 not very wild : and, like its congeners, feeds on in- 

 sects and grains. 



There are probably several other species described 

 in the former volumes of this work, which might 

 with equal propriety be referred to this genus, with 

 many of the above-mentioned : the last species but 

 one is greatly allied to the genus Passerina, not only 

 in habit but in its locality. 



GENUS CXLIX.— PLECTROPHANES, Meyer. 



I HAVE not had an opportunity of consulting 

 Meyer*s work, and consequently cannot give his cha- 

 racter of this genus. 



Passarina (pars) Vieillot. 



Sp. 1. PI. nivalis. Meyer? 



Emberiza nivalis. Steph. v. ix. ^j. 341. pi. 54. — Em. glacialis. 

 Steph. V. ix. p. 344. — Em. montana. Steph, v. is., p. 346 — Bri- 

 tain and the northern regions. 



Sp. 2. PI. Lapponica. Meyer? 



Fringilla Lapponica. Steph. v. x. p. 489. — Emberiza melano- 

 cephala. titeph. v. x. p. 3 Go. — Britain and Northern Europe. 



GENUS CL.— PASSEPJNA, Vieillot. 



Rostrum integrum, capite 

 angustius subrobustum, 

 rectum, versus apicem re- 

 curvatum ; mandihula in- 

 Jerior marginibusinflexis; 

 superior intermedio plana. 



Beak entire, narrower tlian 

 the head, somewhat ro- 

 bust, straight, recurved 

 towards the tip : the lower 

 mandible with its edges 

 inflexed ; the upper flat in 

 the middle. 



