(YELLOW SEED-FINCH.)
+Sycalis chloropis+, _Burm. La-Plata Reise_, ii. p. 489 (Mendoza and
Catamarca), +Sycalis lutea+, _Scl. Ibis_, 1872, p. 46, pl. ii.
fig. 2.
_Description._--Dark yellow; rump and body below brighter; wings
and tail brownish black, edged with yellow; under wing-coverts pale
yellow; inner margins of wing-feathers pale brown: whole length 5·5
inches, wing 3·2, tail 2·1. _Female_ similar, but duller and more
brownish.
_Hab._ Andes of Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina.
Prof. Burmeister obtained examples of this species near Mendoza. In my
revision of the genus published in 1872, I referred the specimens (upon
some of which Prof. Burmeister based his species _S. chloropis_) to _S.
uropygialis_. I now find that this was an error, and that they really
belong to _S. lutea_.--P. L. S.