178 PRTNGILLID^;. 



primaries margined with ashy towards the ends, the fourth and fifth 

 primaries white at base of outer web, forming a tiny white speculum ; 

 centre tail-feathers ashy grey ; remainder of the tail-feathers black, 

 the two outer ones white along the base of the outer web and 

 having a long wedge-shaped mark of white on the inner web, less 

 developed on the penultimate feather and reduced to an irregular 

 white mark on the third ; crown of head slaty blue, with a broad 

 frontal band of black; lores and eyelid also black, with a little 

 white mark above the hinder part of the eye and on the lower eyelid ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of neck slaty blue like the head, the former 

 washed with rufous ; feathers below the eye, cheeks, and ear- 

 coverts like the crown ; under surface of body vinous pink, the 

 sides of the body pale ashy grey ; abdomen, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white with ashy 

 bases, the former with a faint tinge of yellow ; quills dusky blackish, 

 white along the inner web. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-51 , 

 wing 3*4, tail 2-55, tarsus - 7. 



One Algerian specimen seems to be undoubtedly a hybrid between 

 F. ceelehs and F. spodiogenys, as it combines the characters of the 

 two forms of Chaffinch. 



Hub. North-eastern Africa, from Tunis to Morocco. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Algeria. Gould Coll. 



h. <5 ad. st. Algeria. Purchased. 



c. Jad.sk. Algiers, April 23 ( H. B. Tristram). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. J ad. sk. ElDjem, Tunis, March (0. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



e. S ad. sk. Tunis. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



5. Fringilla montifringilla. 



The Brambling, Albin, Hist. Nat. B. iii. p. 00, pi. 64 (1740) ; Penn. 



Brit. Zool. p. 108, pi. 108. fig. 4 (1766) ; Lath. Gen. St/n. ii. pt. 1, 



p. 261 (1783). 

 Le Chardonneret de Suede, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 63 (1760). 

 Le Pincon d' Ardennes, Briss. t. c. p. 152 (1760) ; Daubent. PI. Enl. 



iv. pi. 54. fig. 2. 

 Fringilla montifringilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 318 (1766) ; Koch, 



Syst. baier. Zool. p. 217 (1816) ; Temm. Man. (POrn. i. p. 360 



(1820); Boux, Orn. Prov. pis. 87, 88 (1825); Nanm. Vog. 



Deutschl. v. pi. 119 (1826) ; Werner, Atlas, Granwores, pi. 45 



(1827) ; Gonld, B. Eur. iii. pi. 188 (1837) ; Macqill. Hist. Brit. B. 



i. p. 335 (1837) ; Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. $ N. Amer. p. 31 (1838) ; 



Schl. u. Susem. Vog. Ear. Taf. i. figs. 1, 2 (1839) ; Crespon, Orn. 



Gard. p. 253 (1840) ; Nordm. in Demid. Vmj. Buss. Merid. iii. 



p. 179 (1840) ; Selys-Longch. Fount Belye, p. 73 (1842) ; Yarr. 



Brit. B. i. p. 465 (1843) ; Schl. Bev. Crit. p. lxi (1844) ; Hewits. 



Egqs Brit. B. i. p. 151, pi. 41. fig. 2 (1846) ; Thomps. B. Irel. i. 



p.' 249 (1849) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 371 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p 507 (1850) ; Middend. Beis. Sibir., Zool. p. 153 (1851) ; Kjxrb. 



Damn. Fugle, pi. xxvii. fig. 2, Suppl. pi. 10. fig. 4 (1852) ; Schl 



Voq. Nederl, pi. 66 (1854) ; Horsf. $ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mas. 



i. p. 491 (1854) ; Sundev. Sv. Fogt. pi. v. figs. 1, 2 (1856); Jaub. et 



Barth.-Lapomm. Bich. Orn. p. 135 (1859) ; Seiirenck,Beis. Amurl. 



