Forehead and lores black; crown of the head, sides of the face, throat, wing coverts, and the margins of the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers, blue grey; the remainder of the primaries, secondaries, and tail feathers, greyish black; back yellowish chestnut; under tail coverts light-grey; rump, breast, abdomen and flanks, deep wax yellow; bill bluish horn colour; feet light brown.
Habitat, Tierra del Fuego (December and February).
This finch is common on the outskirts of the forests in Tierra del Fuego. Mr. Gould remarks, that it is nearly allied to F. Gayi, but it is much smaller, and is richer in its colouring.
4. Fringilla fruticeti. Kittl.
Fringilla fruticeti, Kittl. Kupf. der Vögel, pl. 23. f. 1.
Emberiza luctuosa, Eyd. et Gerv. Mag. de Zool. 1834. Cl. 11. pl. 71.
——— D’Orb. & Lafr. Syn. p. 80.
I obtained specimens of this bird from Northern Chile, and Southern Patagonia. I saw it also in the Cordillera of Central Chile, at an elevation of at least eight thousand feet, near the upper limit of vegetation. In Patagonia it is not common, it frequents bushy valleys in small flocks, from six to ten in number. These birds sometimes move from thicket to thicket with a peculiar soaring flight: they occasionally utter very singular and pleasing notes.
5. Fringilla carbonaria. G. R. Gray.
Emberiza carbonaria, D’Orb. & Lafr. Synop. p. 79.