32. MONTIFRINGILLA. 27H 



1 2. Montifringilla gigliolii. 



? Passer arctous, $, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 22 (1811). 

 Leucosticte gigliolii, Salvad, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 579, pi. xliv. ; Tacz. 



J.f. O. 1873, p. 91 ; id. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 179 (1876). 

 Linaria gigliolii, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 110, no. 7662 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above chocolate-brown, with more 

 or less indications of sandy-brown edges to the feathers, the 

 scapulars and lower back washed with dull crimson ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts sooty black ; lesser wing-coverts blackish with a 

 slight reddish tint ; median and greater coverts black, with narrow 

 whity-brown edges ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, quills, and tail- 

 feathers black, narrowly friuged with whity brown, more distinct 

 on the inner secondaries ; crown of head dark ashy grey, the 

 feathers obscured with dusky margins ; the occiput, nape, and hind 

 neck lighter and more earthy brown, forming an indistinct collar ; 

 lores and nasal plumes dusk}' brown ; ear-coverts and cheeks cindery 

 grey ; throat and under surface of body dark cindery grey, a little 

 more hoary on the throat ; breast and sides of body and flanks 

 dull crimsou ; centre of abdomen dark ashy ; thighs lighter brown ; 

 under tail-coverts blackish, with sandy-brown margins; under wing- 

 coverts dusky blackish, the axillaries browner ; quills below dusky, 

 ashy along the inner edge. Total length (i-7 inches, culmen 0-4.">, 

 wing 4 - 2o, tail 2-8, tarsus - 8. 



The adult female resembles the male. 



A young female in winter has none of the reddish tints of the 

 adult, and is decidedly browner, the head being edged with brown 

 like the back, so that the nuchal collar is entirely obliterated ; the 

 dusky feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts edged with ashy 

 brown, and the whole of the under surface of the body obscured by 

 ashy-grey margins to the feathers. 



■Hah. Baikal region, Eastern Siberia. 



a. J ad. sk. Lake Baikal. Dr. Dybowski [(VI. 



b. <S ad. sk. Kultuk. Lake Baikal, Dr. Dybowski [_C 



Jan. 20, 1869. 



c. S ; d-v. 2 ft d. Kultuk, Nov. Purchased. 



sk. 



13. Montifringilla tephrocotis. 



Linaria (Leucosticte) tephrocotis, Swains, lV Rich. Faun. Bor.-Amer., 



Birds, p. 265, pi. 50 (1831). 

 Leucosticte tephrocotis, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 281 (1837) ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 536 (1850) ; Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 430 (1858) ; Blakist. 

 Ibis, 1863, p. 71 ; Salvad. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 580 : Baird in. Cooper's 

 B. Calif, p. 164 (1870); Cones, Key N. Amer. B. p. 130 (1872) ; 

 id. B. N.- West, p. Ill (1874, excl. syn.) ; Baird, Brewer, $ Ridgw. 

 Hist. N. Amer. B. i. p. 504, pi. 23. fig. 8 (1874) ; Ridgw. Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 177 (1880) ; Cones, Check-list, p. 48 (1882) ; 

 id. Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 35 (1884) ; Dretv, Avk, ii. p. 16 

 (1885) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 258 (1886). 

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