8 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 7. NIO 14. 



Throats and abdomen of the males are reddish violet. 

 The outside of the primaries and the secondaries are more 

 reddish violet than the inside. The males also have the upper 

 tail-coverts påle reddish and a red superciliar stripe. In the 

 females the mandibles are whitish a t the base; the points 

 and the margins are hazel coloured. 



15. Fringilla montifringilla L. 



a) c? V3 1910 Narin, at a height of 2140 m. 



b) c? 73 1910 » » » » » 2140 » 



c) c? '73 1910 » 



d) ? 73 1910 » » » » » 2140 » 



e) ? 73 1910 » 



f) ^ '73 1910 » 



Also specimens from Issyk kul. 



a) Wing=90mm.; tail=64mm.; bill=14mm.; tarsus = 15mm. 



d) » =84 » » =58 » » =13 » » =15 » 



Most of the collected birds are still in their winter 

 plumage. The brambling is breeding in the southmost parts 

 of Altai, but it is not prooved if it breeds in more southern 

 districts. Stoliczka has found it at the end of April between 

 Kashgar and Yarkand, and it is possible that bramblings are 

 breeding in the Tian Shan mountains. 



16. Montifringilla nivalis alpicola Pall. 

 ^ ^''Ivi 1909 Narin. 



This specimen shows the following measurements : Wing 

 114, tail 70, bill 14 and tarsus 18 mm. 



The collection only contains one specimen of this bird 

 found breeding from Caucasus to Eastern-Turkestan. The 

 wing measurement fully agrees with the measiires given by 

 Hartert in his »Vögel der Paläarktischen Fauna.» There he 

 says that the wings are 2 — 5 mm. shorter in this subspecies 

 than in Montifringilla nivalis L. which measures from 117 

 to 125 mm. The bird is only breeding in the alpine regions 

 but in winter it descends into the lower valleys. 



