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Show 88 ZOOLOGY OF TilE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE. Habitat, St. Jago, Cape Verde Islands. (September and January.) Like the last species, this bird inhabits sterile lava plains; it runs like a lark, and generally goes in small flocks. Sun-F.AM.-PYRRHULINJE. SPERMOPHILA NIGROGULARIS. Gould. S. capite corporeque supra, alis cauduque fusco . cine1·eis ; loris gul~que nigris. ~ Zineis ~ 1·ost1·i angttlis per collum tttrinque descendentihus, pectore ahdomweque medus, tegrmnibusque caudalibus inferioribus ciuereo albis. Pem. ? supra olivaceo fusca, subtus pallidior. Long. tot. 3 unc.; alw, 2t; caudw, 2 ; tarsi, 6 ; 1·ostri, ·h· Male.-Hcad, all the upper surface, wings and tail, brownish-grey; lores and throat black; lines from the angle of the bill down each side of the neck, centre of the chest and abdomen, and the under tail coverts greyish-white ; billli()'bht horn colour; feet dark-brown. Female?-The whole of the plumage olive-brown above, and lighter beneath; bill and feet brown. Habitat, Monte Video. (November.) 1. CnrTHAGRA 1 BRASILIENSIS. Fringilla Brasiliensis, Spi.v. Av. Sp. Nov. ii. t. hi. f. 1. m. 2. fem. p. 47. My specimens were obtained from the northern bank of the Plata, in the months of June and November. 2. CRITHAGRA? BREVIROSTRIS. Gould. C. vertice clorsoque pallide olivaceo fuscis, plumis singulis stria angustlt media ni;p:ofusca, pennis scapularibus alis caudaque nigrofuscis cine1·eo olivaceo late marginatu ; uropygio virescenti flavo ; loris, gu,ltt, pecto1·e ltumero infra, abdomiue, tegminibusque caudce inferioribus late flavis. Long. tot. 5 unc.; roatri, irr; alCl!, 2~ ; caudw, 2!; tarsi, §. Crown of the head and back, light olive-brown, with a narrow stripe of blackishbrown in the centre of each feather; scapularies, wings and tail, blackishbrown, broadly margined with greyish olive; rump greenish-yellow; lores, BIRDS. 80 throat, chest, under surface of the shoulders, abdomen, and under tail-coverts bright yellow : bil1 and feet brown. Habitat, Maldonado (May), and Valparaiso (September). Near .Maldonado, I saw very large flocks of this species feeding on the open graCssh~Ipla1ms. .When the whole flock rises, these birds utter a low but shrill chirp. In 1 e obtamed only one specimen. Sun-F .AM.-EMBERIZIN JE. 1. EMBERIZA GUBERNATRIX. Tcrmn. Embcriza gubernatrix, Temm., Pl. Col. 63 & 64. --cristata, Slcains, Zool.lll. pl. 148. · --cristatclla, Vieill. Gal. des Ois. pl. 67. Y cllow crested grosbeak, Lath. Ilist. La huppe jaune, A zam, No. 129. :My specimen was procured on the banks of the Parana, near Santa Fe, in latitude 31° S. 2. nMBERIZA LUTEOVENTRIS. G. R. Gmy. Fringilla lutcovcntris, Meyon, Nov. Act. 1880, pl. 12. f. a. This bird was procured at Santa Cruz, in Southern Patagonia; it was rare there. CHRYSOMETRIS CAMPESTRJS. Gould. Fringilla campe~tris, Spix. Avium Nov. Sp. ii. p. 47, pl. 59. f. 3. C. Mas: olivaceus; dot·si plumis singulis flavo mmginatis, uropygii prtEsertirn; vert ice, gula, alis cauddque nig1·is, alis cauddque plus minusve jlavo-margiuatis; capitis lateribus corporeque infm latejlavis. Lotlg. tot. 4 unc. 11 lin.; roat. 5 lin.; alw, 2i; caudw, 2!; tarsi, 7 lin. Male; olivaceous, with each feather of the back margined with yellow, especially on the rump; the top of the head, throat, wings and tail, black, the two latter margined more or less with yellow; the sides of the head and beneath the body bright yellow. Habitat, forests of Tierra del Fuego (Februa1'!J), Valparaiso (September). N |