I never saw this bird but once, and then it was in small flocks, on the most desert parts of the plains between the rivers Negro and Colorado, in Northern Patagonia.
6. Fringilla alaudina. Kittl.
Fringilla alaudina, Kupf. der Vögel, pl. 23. f. 2.
Emberiza guttata, Meyen, Nov. Act. Cur. xvii. pl. 12.
——— D’Orb. & Lafr. Syn. p. 78: Adult.
Passerina guttata, Eyd. & Gerv. Mag. de Zool. 1834. pl. 70. p. 22.
My specimens were obtained from the neighbourhood of Valparaiso.
Birds. Pl. 31.
Passer Jagoensis.
