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BIRDS OF ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, URUGUAY, AND CHILE 407
PHRYGILUS CARBONARIUS (d'Orbigny and Lafresnaye)
Emheriza carionaria d'OEBiGNY and Lafresnaye, Mag. Zool., 1837, cl. 2,
p. 79. (Patagouia.)
The present species has the wing structure typical of the subgenus
€orydospiza^ with the inner secondaries elongated until they are
nearl}^ as long as the longest primaries.
Near Ingeniero White, the port of Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires,
an adult male was taken December 13, 1920, among greasewoods
near the ba3^ Another was shot December 26 near Victorica, Pampa,
in rather high bunch grass in an old pasture. Both specimens were
very wild and were secured with difficulty. Their flight was undulating,
and thej^ alighted indifferently on the ground or on low
bushes.
The male taken December 13, when first killed had the bill between
mustard and primuline yellow; iris Vandyke brown; tarsus
and toes chamois; nails deep neutral gray.
PHRYGILUS ALAUDINUS ALAUDINUS (Kittlitz)
FringilJa alaudina, Kittlitz, Kupf. Naturg. Vog., 1832, p. 18, pi. 23, fig. 2.
(Chile.)
Near Concon, Chile, April 28. 1921, these birds were fairly common
amid scattered, scrubb}^ bushes over a broad flattened hill top,
where they fed on the ground in company with Brachyspisa and diuca
finches. When flushed they flew away with undulating flight or
perched in the tops of low bushes. Of three taken, a pair were pre-
served as skins and a single bird as a skeleton.
An adult male, when first killed, had the bill tipped with dark
mouse gray, the remainder chamois ; iris Vandyke brown ; tarsus and
toes honey yellow; claws dark neutral gray. In a female the base
of the mandible except at the cutting edge was wood brown, and
the remainder of the bill fuscous black ; iris Vandyke brown ; tarsus
and toes honey yellow ; claws dark neutral gray.
PHRYGILUS ALAUDINUS VENTURII Hartert
Phrygilus alaudimis venturii, Hartert, Nov. Zool., December, 1909, p. 180.
(Laguuita, Tucuman, 3,000 meters.)
An adult female and a juvenile male were taken at an altitude of
2,300 meters on the Sierra San Xavier, above Tafi Viejo, Tucuman,
on April 17, 1921. The adult female has the following measurements:
Wing (worn), 78; tail, 60.4; culmen from base, 13.2; tarsus,
24.5 mm. Four females of alaudinus from central Chile (Concon,
Santiago, and two without locality) show the following range:
Wing, 72.0-74.6; tail, 50.4-55.5; culmen from base, 12.1-13; tarsus,
20-21.8 mm. The bird from Tucuman is darker than those from
Chile, and is duller white on the abdomen.