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top of the head, ears, sides of the neck and breast, grey mixed witli rufous ;
the lilies from the nostrils reaching behind the eyes and cheeks, white ; the
space between tlie hill and eye, and the tliroat, deep black ; the primaries
and secondaries blackish, margined with yellow ; the tail, with the middle
feathers, olivaceous black, with the three external nearly wholly pale yellow;
the middle of the abdomen yellowish white, with the flanks darker.
Young : Upper surface brownish white, with tlie middle of each feather black ;
the throat lighter ; the wing coverts and secondaries margined with white
and brown ; the primaries with yellow ; the tail blackish, with their outer
margins yellow, and the external feather wholly pale yellow white; heneatli the
body pale yellowish white, streaked on the breast and flanks with a darker tint.
Habitat, East Falkland Island (Jiferc/i), and Santa Cruz, Patagonia {ApriV).
This bird is extremely abundant in large scattered flocks in the Falkland
Islands.
2 . ChlOUOSPIZA ? XANTH0GR.4MMA. G .R . Gray.
P l a t e XXXIII.
C. cilwrascenti olivácea, rufo paulo tincta ; lineâ à naribus pone oculos transiente
genisque flavis ; plumis inter rostrum et oculos gulâque atris ; remigibus secundariis
nigrescentibus, cinereo et oliváceo latè marginatis ; primariis nigrescentibus, flavo
anausti marginatis ; caudâ cinerascenti nigrâ, plumis externis albis ; corpore infra
fiavescenti albo, hypochondriis obscurioribus.
Long. tot. 7 .| une. ; aloe, 3J ; caudæ, 3 ; tarti, 1 ; roUrt, 7 lin.
.\dult ; Greyish olive, very slightly mixed with rufous, a line from the nostrils
reaching behind the eyes and cheeks, yellow ; the space between the bill and
eye, and the entire throat, deep black ; the secondaries blackish, broadly
margined with grey and olive; the primaries blackish, slightly margined
with yellow ; the tail greyish black, with tlie outer feathers white ; beneath
the body yellowish white, darker on the flanks.
Female : Upper surface lirownish wliite, witli each feather blackish brown in the
middle, the head and throat paler ; the wing-coverts and secondaries blackish,
margined with brownish white; the primaries blackish, slightly margined
with yellow ; the tail blackish white-margined, with the outer feathers nearly
wholly white ; beneath the body yellowish white, streaked with brown on
the breast and flanks: and the space from the nostrils reaching to behind the
eyes and cheeks, yellowish.
Habitat, East Falkland Island (March), and Tierra del Fuego (February).