Hab. Bolivia and Argentina.
White met with a male of this species in September 1881, at San Pedro, in the province of Santiago. Burmeister found it near Mendoza in the valleys of Sierra de Uspallata.
[65.] POOSPIZA MELANOLEUCA (Vieill.).
(WHITE-AND-GREY WARBLING FINCH.)
Poospiza melanoleuca, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 484 (Entrerios); Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 30; Salv. Ibis, 1880, p. 354, pl. ix. fig. 2 (Tucuman); White, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 599 (Salta); Barrows, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cl. viii. p. 130 (Entrerios).
Description.—Above, head and neck blackish; back grey; wings and tail blackish, three outer rectrices on each side tipped with white; beneath white; sides washed with grey, breast and belly also faintly tinged with grey: whole length 5·1 inches, wing 2·3, tail 2·0. Female similar.
Hab. Argentina.
White says that in Salta “this bird frequents the gardens in the vicinity of the houses, where it vigorously pursues the ants amongst the branches of the trees.” Mr. Barrows says that near Concepcion it had the general motions and appearance of a Titmouse, thus differing widely from the other members of the genus.