61. POOSPIZA ERYTHROPHRYS, Scl.

(RED-BROWED WARBLING FINCH.)

+Poospiza erythrophrys+, _Scl. Ibis_, 1881, p. 599, pl. xvii. fig. 1;

_White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 599 (Catamarca).

_Description._--Above grey, faintly washed with olive; greater

wing-coverts tipped with white; wing-feathers blackish, edged with

grey; tail blackish grey, the two outer feathers on each side tipped

with white, and on the outer feather the white extending down

the outer web to the base of the tail; superciliary stripe and

whole under surface light chestnut, paler on the abdomen; under

tail-coverts buff: total length 5·5 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·3.

_Hab._ Northern Argentina.

This pretty species is another of White's discoveries. He first met

with it in the Sierra of Totoral, Catamarca, and subsequently about 20

miles north of Buenos Ayres.

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