32. MONTIFRINGIXIA. 269 



e',f. Ad.; y',h',i\ Sikkim, Jan. 1874 (L. Mandelli). Hume Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



k'. <3 ad. sk. Sikhim, April 1873 (L. Mandelli). Hume Coll. 



I', m'. Ad. sk. Sikkim, May 1873 (Z. Mandelli). Hume Coll. 



«'. Ad. sk. Sikkim (TV. E. Brooks). Hume Coll. 



o'-r'. Ad. ; s', V, u'. Sikkim. Hume Coll. 



Juv. sk. 



v', w'. <3 imm. sk. Darjiling, Dec. 1869. Hume Coll. 



X . Imm. sk. Darjiling (J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



y'. Ad. sk. Laekung, April 1872 (L. Hume Coll. 

 Mandelli). 



a. Ad. ; j8, y, 8, e. Bootan (Pemberton). India Museum. 



Juv. sk. 



10. Montifringilla brandti. 



Leucosticte brandti, Bp. Consp. i. p. 537 (1850) ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 



1868, p. 580 ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 



1875, p. 242 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 88 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, 



p. 58. 

 Montifringilla hsematopygia, Goidd, P.Z.S. 1851, p. 114; id. B. 



Asia, v. pi. 3 (1851) ; Peh. Ibis, 1868, p. 319 ; Hume $ Henders. 



Lahore to Yark. p. 261 (1873) ; Scully, Str. F. 1876, p. 171. 

 Leucosticte ksematopvgia, Salvad. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 580 ; Hume, Str. 



F. 1879, p. 108 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 58. 

 Linaria haeniatopygia, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 110, no. 7661 (1870). 

 Leucosticte pamirensis, Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 58. 



Adult. Mantle and upper back sooty brown, streaked with black- 

 ish brown ; scapulars ashy grey, with dusky shaft-stripes ; lower 

 back and rump dusky brown, the feathers edged with rosy at the 

 tips ; lesser and median coverts ashy grey, with dusky shaft-lines 

 and hoary on' the edges ; greater coverts dusky brown, externally 

 ashy grey like the rest of tbe coverts ; bastard-wing black, narrowly 

 fringed with whitish ; primary-coverts and quills dusky blackish, 

 edged with white, more broadly on the secondaries, the inner 

 secondaries being margined with brown ; upper tail-coverts pale 

 brown, with whitish edges ; tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with 

 white, more broadly on the outer ones ; crown of head and hind 

 neck sooty black, deeper black on the forehead and crown ; lores 

 and feathers round the eye and at base of bill black ; ear-coverts 

 and sides of hinder crown dark ashy brown ; cheeks and throat dark 

 ashy brown, blackish on the chin and fore part of the cheeks ; 

 remainder of under surface of body ashy grey, with dusky shaft-lines 

 to the breast-feathers ; lower abdomen white ; sides of body and 

 flanks ashy grey like the breast ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 whitish, the latter with dusky shaft-lines ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white ; quills below- dusky, ashy white along the inner 

 edge : bill black in summer, " brownish dusky in autumn, yellow 

 at base below ; legs, feet, and claws black ; iris brown " (J. 

 Scully). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 4-5, tail 3-1, 

 tarsus 0*8. 



The adult female resembles the male, but has the rosy colour of 



