119 
Hab. —Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentine Republic. 
Wing, 0.25-7.40; tail, 5.40-0.20; culmen, 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 inner webs emarginated ; tail even. 
Adult. —Above, slate-color (varying from bluish to brownish), the 
pileum 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. Tibiae plain rufous; rest of lower parts white; 
the crissum immaculate and the throat variegated only by fine dusky 
sliaft-streaks; aurieulars 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, sometimes narrower). Tibi* 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 aurieulars, aud 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 tibiae, aud more distinctly-banded tail. 
List of specimens in United States National Museum. 
Catalogue No. 
Corresponding 
No. of— 
Original No. 
Nature of speci¬ 
men. 
Sex and age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
From whom received. 
50945 
58945 
0194-2 
cfjuv. 
Brazil. 
Sr. Don F. Albu¬ 
querque. 
9iuv. 
Collected by— 
Other specimens examined .—In Coll. O. Salvin, 3; G. N. Lawrence, 1; Pkilad. Acad., 
3 ; N. Y. Mas., 1; Mas. Comp. Zool., 1; total, 12. 
Measurements. 
Catalogue No. | 
Museum. 
Sex and age. 
Locality. 
fc’c 
g 
£ 
••H 
a 
H 
Culmen. 
Tarsus. 
Middle toe. 
Collected by— 
7793 
M. C. Z 
cf ad. 
Pernambuco. 
6. 30 
5. 60 
J. C. Fletcher. 
O. s. 
9 ad. 
Bahia _ 
7. 40 
6. 20 
6. 00 
0. 45 
0. 35 
1.80 
1. 65 
i . 20 
1.10 
Wucherer. 
H. Wliitely. 
........ 
O. S. 
cf.inv. 
Brazil. 
6.20 
.. 
O. S. 
?juv. 
Bahia. 
7. 40 
6. 60 
0. 45 
1.90 
W ucherer. 
