(RED-STAINED FINCH.)
+Catamenia analis+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 488 (Mendoza);
_Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 31; _White, P. Z. S._ 1882, p. 599
(Catamarca). +Spermophila analis+, _Sharpe, Cat. B._ xii. p. 106.
_Description._--Above clear grey; wing-feathers black, edged with
grey; tail black, a large white blotch on the central part of each
feather, the two middle feathers excepted; beneath grey, palest on
the belly; under tail-coverts rufous: whole length 5·0 inches, wing
2·8, tail 2·2. _Female_, above obscure brownish buff, striped with
blackish; beneath dirty white.
_Hab._ Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina.
Burmeister met with this Finch on the sierras near Mendoza, and White
obtained a single specimen in Catamarca.