(RED-CRESTED FINCH.)
Coryphospingus cristatus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 30; Salvin, Ibis, 1880, p. 354 (Salta); White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 598 (Salta).
Description.—Above black, washed with red; rump crimson; wing- and tail-feathers black; forehead black; crest vivid scarlet; whole under surface fine crimson: total length 5·5 inches, wing 2·6, tail 2·3. Female above brown, with scarlet tinge on the rump; beneath salmon-colour, whitish on the throat.
Hab. Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Northern Argentina.
Both Durnford and White obtained specimens of this bird in the province of Salta; White’s examples were met with in open country, dotted with thickets of low brushwood, to which the bird resorts.
[57.] LOPHOSPINGUS PUSILLUS (Burm.).
(DARK-CRESTED FINCH.)
Lophospiza pusilla, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 483. Lophospingus pusillus, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 195 (Cordova). Coryphospingus pusillus, Salv. Ibis, 1880, p. 354, pl. ix. fig. 1 (Tucuman).
Description.—Above grey; sides of head and crest blackish; broad superciliaries white; wings blackish, edged with whitish grey; tail blackish, lateral rectrices with broad white tips; beneath greyish white, clearer on the throat and middle of the belly; bill dark horn-colour; lower mandible whitish; feet pale brown: whole length 5·0 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·4.
Hab. Northern Argentina.