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BIRDS OF ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, URUGUAY, AND CHILE 423
g:reenish heads, were very tame and perched unafraid almost Avithin
reach.
An adult male had the maxilla dull black ; base of gonys dark olive
buff; rest of mandible somewhat lighter than andover green; iris
russet; tarsus and toes chaetura drab.
POOSPIZA TORQUATA (dOrbigny and Lafresnaye)
Emheriza torquata cI'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, Mag. Zool., 1837, p. 82.
(Sicasica, Bolivia.)
At Kilometer 200, west of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, an adult
female was taken September 25, 1920, from a little flock found
working among small branches in heavy brush. Subsequently others
were noted at Victorica, Pampa, on December 24 and 29, and two
more adult females were taken. They frequented low, scrubby
growth near the ground. The flight was tilting, accompanied by a
prominent display of white in the tail.
LOPHOSPINGUS PUSILLUS (Burmeistcr)
Guhernatrix pusilla Burmehster, Journ. fiir Ornitli., 1860, p. 254. (Tucuman.)
At Laguna Wall, 200 Idlometers west of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay,
on September 25, 1920, I found a pair of these little, crested
finches feeding on the ground at the border of a thicket of vinal,
and secured a female. The birds flew with quickly tilting flight,
with a prominent display of the white tail markings. Near Tapia,
Tucuman, on April 11, 1921, I secured another near a large barranca
in a tract of low brush grown with weeds, where it was on the
ground with a mixed flock of Brachysfiza and Saltatricula. The
species has been recorded from Cordoba, Tucuman, Salta, and Jujuy,
so that its occurrence in western Paraguay is not astonishing. The
male is in molt. The female shows a black throat patch of irregular
form, and smaller size than in the male. In the Ibis for 1880 (pi.
9) a female taken in Tucuman by Durnford is figured with the
throat white.
SALTATRICULA MULTICOLOR (Burmeistcr)
Saltator multicolor Burme^stek, Journ. f iir Ornitb., ISGO, p. 254. (Parana.)
This handsome finch was first encountered at the Laguna Wall,
200 kilometers west of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay, where a male
was taken on September 25, 1920, a considerable extension of range
as it has not been recorded in literature outside of Argentina, where
it is found from Cordoba and Mendoza north to Salta. Near Tapia,
Tucuman, the species was common from April 7 to 13, 1921, and
four Avere skinned. The single bird from Paraguay is paler brown