(RED-BROWED WARBLING FINCH.)
Poospiza erythrophrys, Scl. Ibis, 1881, p. 599, pl. xvii. fig. 1; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 599 (Catamarca).
Description.—Above grey, faintly washed with olive; greater wing-coverts tipped with white; wing-feathers blackish, edged with grey; tail blackish grey, the two outer feathers on each side tipped with white, and on the outer feather the white extending down the outer web to the base of the tail; superciliary stripe and whole under surface light chestnut, paler on the abdomen; under tail-coverts buff: total length 5·5 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·3.
Hab. Northern Argentina.
This pretty species is another of White’s discoveries. He first met with it in the Sierra of Totoral, Catamarca, and subsequently about 20 miles north of Buenos Ayres.
[62.] POOSPIZA ASSIMILIS, Cab.
(RED-FLANKED WARBLING FINCH.)
Poospiza assimilis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 137; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 599 (Misiones). Poospiza lateralis, Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl. viii. p. 130 (Concepcion).
Description.—Above grey, slight superciliary mark whitish; middle of back and wings washed with rufous; rump bright rufous; tail blackish, two lateral pairs of rectrices broadly tipped with white; beneath grey, white in the middle of the belly; flanks and crissum bright rufous; under wing-coverts greyish white; bill horn-colour, lower mandible yellowish; feet pale brown; whole length 5·0 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·4.
Hab. Northern Argentina.