(RINGED WARBLING FINCH.)
+Poospiza torquata+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 484 (Mendoza);
_Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 30; _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 599
(Santiago del Estero); _Döring, Exp. al Rio Negro, Zool._ p. 38
(R. Colorado).
_Description._--Above grey; wings blackish, the greater wing-coverts
tipped with white; tail-feathers black, the two outer on each side
tipped with white; from the bill, a broad white stripe extends
above the eye to the nape; crown grey; sides of head black; beneath
white, the chest crossed with a broad black band; under tail-coverts
rufous: total length 5·3 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·3.
_Hab._ Bolivia and Argentina.
White met with a male of this species in September 1881, at San Pedro,
in the province of Santiago. Burmeister found it near Mendoza in the
valleys of Sierra de Uspallata.