264 FRINGrLLID-E. 



under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills below dusky, white 

 at the base of the inner edge. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*4, 

 wing 3-7, tail 2-25, tarsus 0*8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male but duller in colour, the tawny 

 sides of the neck and the white forehead not so strongly pronounced. 

 Total length 5*5 inches, culmen 045, wing 3 - 55, tail L75, 

 tarsus 0*8. 



In summer the plumage becomes much worn and abraded, and the 

 white on the wing-coverts is less conspicuous. 



Young birds are much browner than the adults and have the crown 

 uniform brown, with a reddish-brown eyebrow and a tinge of the 

 same colour on the sides of the neck ; the whole of the under surface 

 is suffused with tawny buff, and the tail is edged with tawny brown. 



Hab. Sikhim and Thibet to Kansu and Kokonoor. 



a. Ad. sk. KangTa Lama Pass, Sikhim, Hume Coll. 



Oct. 5, 1870 {H. J. Elwes). 



b. 3 ad. sk. Kangra Lama Pass, Sikhim, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



Oct. 5, 1870. (Tvpe of species.) 



c. J ad. sk. Phalung, Sikkim, Oct. 7. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.]. 



d. e,f. Ad. ; Thibet, Sept. 1874 (Z. Man- Hume Coll. 

 g-k. Juv.sk. delli). 



I. Ad. sk. Thibet, Oct. 1878 (Z. Man- Hume Coll. 



delli). 

 m, n. Ad. sk. Thibet, June 1876 (Z. Man- Hume Coll. 



delli). 

 o. Juv. sk. Thibet, July 1876 (Z. Man- Hume Coll. 



delli). 

 p. 3 ad. sk. Kokonoor, October. General Prjevalski [P.]. 



q. 2 ad. sk. Kansu, October. General Prjevalski [P.J. 



6. Montifringilla blanfordi. (Plate IV.) 

 Montifringilla blanfordi, Hume, Sir. F. 1876, p. 487, 1879, p. 108. 



Adidt (type of species). General colour above uniform sandy 

 brown, the upper tail-coverts resembling the back; wiug-coverts 

 like the back, with pale sandy-buff edges to the median and greater 

 coverts ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, fringed with ashy 

 brown ; quills blackish, externally edged with ashy brown, the inner 

 secondaries more broadly margined and tipped with pale sandy, the 

 inner primaries and secondaries white at the base of the inner web, 

 the former also white externally, as well as the first primary ; 

 centre tail-feathers blackish, edged with white, the remainder 

 having the white increasing externally and towards the ends, which 

 are edged with sandy buff and have a large subterminal blackish 

 spot ; crown of head like the back ; the occiput, nape, and hind neck 

 more rufous, forming an indistinct collar, commencing behind the 

 eye ; forehead white, intersected by a black median streak ; lores 

 black, extending in a streak above the eye, and followed by a white 

 eyebrow ; eyelid black above, white below, like the ear-coverts and 

 cheeks, which have a slight tinge of rufous like the sides of the 

 neck ; throat and under surface of body white; chin black ; sides of 



