(DARK-CRESTED FINCH.)
+Lophospiza pusilla+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 483.
+Lophospingus pusillus+, _Cab. J. f. O._ 1878, p. 195 (Cordova).
+Coryphospingus pusillus+, _Salv. Ibis_, 1880, p. 354, pl. ix.
fig. 1 (Tucuman).
_Description._--Above grey; sides of head and crest blackish; broad
superciliaries white; wings blackish, edged with whitish grey; tail
blackish, lateral rectrices with broad white tips; beneath greyish
white, clearer on the throat and middle of the belly; bill dark
horn-colour; lower mandible whitish; feet pale brown: whole length
5·0 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·4.
_Hab._ Northern Argentina.