170 FRINGILLIDA 



24. FRINGILLA. T 



Fringilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. (xii.) i. p. 318 (1760) F. ccelebs. 



Calebs, Cuv. Lemons Anat. Comp. tabl. ii. (1800) F. ccelebs. 



Struthus, Bote, Isis, 1828, p. 323 F. ccelebs. 



Range. Europe generally, with the countries bordering the 

 Mediterranean to the south, eastwards to Western Siberia, Persia 

 and Turkestan ; Madeira ; Canaries ; Azores. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With no white on rump ; no black spots on 



flanks. 



«'. Rump blue-grey like the back ; underparts 



blue-grey, white on abdomen and under 



tail-coverts tcydea, p. 170. 



b'. Rump olive-green or olive-yellow. 



a". Ear-coverts rufescent like the breast. 



a'". Back rufous, contrasting witb the grey 



head Calebs, p. 171. 



,i„ r, , , , !_, i i i i -ii 1 maderensis, p. 175. 



b'". Back slaty blue, or slaty, washed with 1 mon , lefi ' j 76 



olive-yellow | canarie ^ > p . i 77 . 



6". Ear-coverts grey like the head spodiogenys, p. 177. 



b. With a white rump ; flanks spotted with black montifringitta, p. 178. 



1. Fringilla teydea. 

 Fringilla teydea, Webb $ Berth. Orn. C'cmar. p. 20, pi. i. figs. 1, 2 



(1836-44) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 507 (1850) ; Bolle, J. f. 0. 1854, p. 456, 



1857, p. 312 ; E. Newt. Ibis, 1863, p. 188 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 80, no. 7170 (1870) ; Godman, Ibis, 1872, p. 210 ; Dresser, B. 



Bur. iv. p. 25, pi. 185 (1873). 

 Passer teydea, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849). 



Adult male in summer plumage. Above leaden blue ; lesser wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median coverts blackish, with broad tips of 

 bluish white ; greater coverts blackish, externally leaden blue, in- 

 clining to bluish white at the ends ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills blackish, edged with leaden blue, paler on the primaries, 

 the fourth, fifth, and sixth having a tiny white spot at the base of 

 the outer web, forming an alar speculum ; upper tail-coverts like 

 the back ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with leaden blue, broader on 

 the centre ones, the two outer ones fringed with white along the tip 

 of the inner web, which has an ashy wedge-shaped mark near the 

 end ; crown of head and sides of face leaden blue, with a tiny white 

 spot on the upper and under eyelid ; under surface of body paler 

 than the upper, being pale bluish grey, with the centre of the abdo- 

 men and under tail-coverts white ; thighs blue-grey ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts bluish grey, the lower coverts edged with white ; 

 quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web : " upper mandible 

 clear horn-colour, varied with greyish white at the base ; lower 

 mandible almost entirely white ; feet horn-colour " ( Webb and 

 Berthelot). Total length 7 inches, cnlmen - 7, wing 3-95, tail 345, 

 tarsus 0-9. 



