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Show 114 ZOOLOGY OF TilE VOYAGE OF TilE BEAGLE. coverts, and the margins of the primaries, secondaries, and tail"feathers, blue grey; the remainder of the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers, greyishblack; 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. Gayi, but it is much smaller, and is richer in its colouring. 4. FRINGILLA FRUTICETI, Kitll. Fringilln. fruticeti, Kittl. Kupf. der Vogel, pl. 23. f. 1. Emberiza. luctuosa, Eyd. et Gerl). Mag. de Zool. 1834. Cl. 11. pl. 71. ----- D'Orb. ct Lafr. Syn. p. 80. I obtained specimens of this bird from Northern Chile, and South em Patagonia. 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. R. Gray. Emberiza carb~naria, 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. FRTNGILLA ALAUDINA. Kittl. Fringilla alaudina, Kupf. der Vogel, pl. 23. f. 2. Embcriza. gutta.ta, Meyen, Nov. Act. Cur. xvii. pl. 12. ---- D'Orb. o/ Lajr. Syn. p. 78: Adult. Passcrina guttata, Eyd. o/ Gcrl), Mag. de Zool. 1834. pl. ~0. p. 22. My specimens were obtained from the neighbourhood of Valpal'aiso. |