Embernagra macroura, d’Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 285. Emberizoides macrurus, Burm. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 485 (Paraná). Emberizoides sphenurus, Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 33.
Description.—Above yellowish brown, striped with black; shoulders edged with yellow; wing-feathers blackish, edged with olive-green; tail-feathers blackish, edged with pale brown; beneath pale [ochraceous] brown, white on the throat and middle of the belly; bill and feet pale horn-colour: whole length 8·0 inches, wing 3·1, tail 4·0.
Hab. Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.
Burmeister met with this species near Paraná and in other parts of Northern Argentina.
[86.] HÆMOPHILA WHITII (Sharpe).
(WHITE’S GROUND-FINCH.)
Zonotrichia whitii, Sharpe, Cat. B. xiii. p. 608, pl. xiii. Zonotrichia strigiceps, White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 38 (Cordova).
Description.—Above, head and neck grey, variegated with dark chestnut; back yellowish brown with black stripes; wings and tail blackish, the feathers edged with pale brown; beneath, throat and belly white, breast pale grey; sides yellowish brown; bill dark horn-colour, lower mandible whitish; feet light horn-colour: whole length 6·0 inches, wing 2·5, tail 2·8.
Hab. Northern Argentina.
This species has been based by Mr. Sharpe on a specimen, obtained by White near Cordova, which was wrongly determined as Zonotrichia strigiceps—a species that it somewhat resembles in its upper plumage.