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coverts, and hinder cheeks white, slightly washed with sandy buff ; 

 across the forehead a broad band of black ; the lores, feathers below 

 the eye, fore part of cheeks, throat, and centre of fore neck also black ; 

 sides of fore neck and remainder of under surface of body white ; 

 sides of body and flanks sandy buff; thighs sandy buff ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills 

 below ashy, white along the inner web : " bill white, the point 

 brown, turning yellow in the dried skin ; legs reddish grey, toes 

 darker ; iris reddish " (David). Total length 4-5 iuches, culmen 0-4, 

 wing 3 - 3, tail 1*65, tarsus 06. (Mas. H. Seebohm.) 

 Hah. Chinese Mongolia. 



8. Montifringilla sordida. 



PPropasser murrayi, Myth, J. A. S. Bcny. xxxii. p. 458 (1863) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1876, p. 504, 1879, p. 108. 

 Fringillauda nerooricola (nee Hodi/s.), Horsf.fy Moore, Cat. B. E. I. 

 Co. Mus. ii. p. 492 (1856) ; Adams, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 184 ; Jerd. B. 

 lnd. ii. p. 414 (1863, pt.) ; Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 319; Hume Sf 

 Headers. Lahore to Yark. p. 264 (1873). 

 Frmgillauda sordida, Stoliczka, J. A. S. Beny. xxxvii. p. 63 (1868) ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 41, 1879, p. 108 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 597 ; 

 Biddulph, t. c. p. 88 ; Homeyer $ Tancre, MT. Orn. Ver. Wien, 

 1883, p. 89. 

 Fringilla sordida, Gray, Hatid-l. B. ii. p. 85, no. 7256 (1870). 

 Carpodacus murrayi, Gray, t. c. p. 102, no. 7520 (1870). 

 Passer pulverulentus, Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 116 (1873) ; 



Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 240; Severtz. Str. F. 1875, p. 424. 

 Fringillauda altaica, Eversm. *, Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 60. 

 Adult male. General colour above brown, mottled with black 

 centres to the feathers, the feathers of the mantle and back broadly 

 edged with creamy white ; lower back and rump ashy grey ; lesser 

 wing-coverts sandy brown with blackish centres ; median coverts ashy 

 grey, edged with yellowish buff and centred with black shaft-streaks ; 

 greater coverts dusky blackish, narrowly tipped with yellowish 

 white and externally edged with light brown, the inner ones 

 blackish externally near the base ; bastard-wing blackish, edged 

 with lighter brown ; primary-coverts blackish, with ashy-grey bases 

 and conspicuously edged with white along the outer web ; quills 

 blackish, edged with sandy brown, the inner secondaries with 

 ochreous buff and conspicuously blackish at the base of the outer 

 web, forming a similar pattern to the inner greater coverts ; upper 

 tail-coverts blackish, broadly tipped with white ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with sandy buff, paler towards the ends of the leathers 

 and broader on the middle ones ; crown of head like the back, sandy 

 brown, mottled with black centres to the feathers ; hind neck more 

 uniform ashy brown ; lores ashy ; a narrow eyebrow of pale sandy 

 buff, as well as the eyelid ; ear-coverts and cheeks pale ashy brown, 

 slightly streaked with dusky centres ; throat and under surface of 



* This name is quoted by Severtzoff (I. c), but I have not been able to find 

 where it was published. 1 have very little doubt that the oldest name of the 

 present species is M. murrayi (Blyth) ; but, as Mr. Hume is a little uncertain 

 on the subject, I have adopted the one by which it is best known to ornithologists. 



