White found this species abundant amongst the thick weeds and grass in the outskirts of Concepcion. He took it for P. thoracica, from which it differs in its rufous rump. It is more like P. lateralis.
[63.] POOSPIZA ORNATA (Landb.).
(PRETTY WARBLING FINCH.)
Phrygilus ornatus, Landb. Journ. f. Orn. 1865, p. 405. Poospiza ornata, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 30.
Description.—Above grey; back more or less varied with chestnut; long superciliaries ochreous white; wings blackish, coverts edged with white, tail black, lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white; beneath dark chestnut, lighter on the middle of the belly; bill and feet dark brown; whole length 5·2 inches, wing 2·4, tail 2·3. Female similar, but paler in colour, especially below.
Hab. Mendoza.
[64.] POOSPIZA TORQUATA (d’Orb. et Lafr.).
(RINGED WARBLING FINCH.)
Poospiza torquata, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 484 (Mendoza); Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 30; White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 599 (Santiago del Estero); Döring, Exp. al Rio Negro, Zool. p. 38 (R. Colorado).
Description.—Above grey; wings blackish, the greater wing-coverts tipped with white; tail-feathers black, the two outer on each side tipped with white; from the bill, a broad white stripe extends above the eye to the nape; crown grey; sides of head black; beneath white, the chest crossed with a broad black band; under tail-coverts rufous: total length 5·3 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·3.