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coverts, and the margins of the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers, blue 

 grey ; the remainder of the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers, greyish- 

 black ; back yellowish-chestnut ; under tail coverts light-grey ; rump, breast, 

 abdomen and flanks, deep wax-yellow ; bill bluish horn-colour ; feet light 

 brown. 



Habitat, Tierra del Fuego {December and February). 



This finch is common on the outskirts of the forests in Tierra del Fuego. 

 Mr. Gould remarks, that it is nearly allied to F. Gaiji, but it is much smaller, 

 and is richer in its colouring. 



4. Fringilla fruticeti, Kittl. 



FringiUa fruticeti, Kittl. Kupf. der Vogel, pi. 23. f. 1. 

 Emberiza luctuosa, Eyd. et Gen. Mag. de Zool. 1834. CI. 11. pi. 71. 

 D'Orl. et Lafr. Syn. p. 80. 



I obtained specimens of this bird from Northern Chile, and Southern Pata- 

 gonia. I saw it also in the Cordillera of Central Chile, at an elevation of at least 

 eight thousand feet, near the upper limit of vegetation. In Patagonia it is not 

 common, it frequents bushy valleys in small flocks, from six to ten in number. 

 These birds sometimes move from thicket to thicket with a peculiar soaring flight: 

 they occasionally utter very singular and pleasing notes. 



5. Fringilla carbonaria. G. JR. Gray. 



Emberiza carbonaria, D'Orb. et Lafr. Synop. p. 79. 



I never saw this bird but once, and then it was in small flocks, on the most 

 desert parts of the plains between the rivers Negro and Colorado, in Northern 

 Patagonia. 



6. Fringilla alaudina. Kittl. 



Fringilla alaudina, Kupf. der Vogel, pi. 23. f. 2. 

 Emberiza guttata, Met/en, Nov. Act. Cur. xvii. pi. 12. 



D'Orb. $ Lafr. Syn. p. 78: Adult. 



Passerina guttata, Eyd. $ Gen. Mag. de Zool. 1834. pi. 70. p. 22. 



My specimens were obtained from the neighbourhood of Valparaiso. 





