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Show 119 Hab.- Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentine Republic. Wing, 6.25- 7.40; tail, 5.40- 6.20; 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. AdulL- Above, slate- color ( varying from bluish 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. Tibiae plain rufous; rest of lower parts white; the crissum immaculate and the throat variegated only by fine dusky shaft- 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 bordered terminally with rusty; tail grayer, crossed by five regular and continuous bands of dull black, nearly equal in width to the gray interspaces ( sometimes wider, sometimes narrower). Tibiae 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 tibiae, and more distinctly- banded tail. List of specimens in United States National Museum. * 3 < r* M\ VM* i (• I'M? a li Original No. i. 0 3 ft Sex and age. rfjav. 9jav. Locality. Brazil .... do .... do When collected. From whom received. Sr. Bon F. Albu- . querque. Collected by- Other specimens examined.- In Coll. O. Salvia, 3; G. N. Lawrence, 1; Philad. Acad., 3; N. Y. Mas., 1 ; Mas. Comp. Zool., 1; total, 12. Measurements. 0 « s M % Museum. 1 VL. C. Z O. S as O. S Sex and age. cf ad- 9 ad. 9 J ^ - Locality. Pernamhuco.............. Bahia Brazil Bahia Wing. 6.30 7.40 6.90 7.40 Tail ! 5.60 6. SO 6.00 6.60 § 1 0.45 0.35 0.45 1 1.80 1.65 J. 90 Middle toe. 1.20 1.10 Collected by- J. C. Fletchor. Wucherer. H. Whitely. Wucherer. |