32. M0NTIFRING1LLA. 279 



Fringilla brunneouucha, Kittl. Deukic. Reis. Russ. Amer. i. p. 336 



(1858) ; David, K Arch. Mus. vii. Bull. p. 10 (1871). 

 Linaria bruimeouucha, (fray, Band-l. B. ii. p. 110, no. 7650 (1870). 

 Linaria (Leucosticte) brunneonucka, Bolau, J.f. 0. 1882, p. 335. 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown, mottled with 

 sandy-brow ii edges to the feathers of the mantle and back ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts washed with rosy violet, with 

 which the feathers are tipped ; lesser and median coverts rose- 

 colour, with blackish bases ; greater coverts blackish, edged with 

 sand)' buff, the inner ones with rosy ; bastard-wing black ; primary- 

 coverts and quills black, edged with pale brown, faintly tiuged with 

 rosy, the secondaries margined with white, the innermost broadly 

 edged with brown ; tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with whity 

 brown ; crown of head dark grey, with hoary-grey shaft-lines ; 

 occiput, nape, and hind neck tawny buff, commencing from behind 

 the eye ; sides of neek also tawny buff ; lores, feathers round eye, 

 and ear-coverts grey, with a hoary lustre ; the cheeks, throat, fore 

 neck, and breast dusky, washed with ashy grey, the latter with 

 central spots of pearly grey ; remainder of under surface rosy, the 

 feathers having dusky bases ; abdomen, sides of body, and flanks 

 also rosy ; thighs brown, edged with whitish ; under tail-coverts 

 dusky, tipped with rosy, with a subterminal line of white ; under 

 wing-coverts white, edged with rosy, the outer ones dusky at base ; 

 axillaries light brown, washed with rosy ; quills below dusky, light 

 ashy along the inner edge. Total length 6 - 5 inches, culmen 0*5, 

 wing 4*2, tail 2*7, tarsus 0*8. 



The adult female resembles the male. 



In winter plumage the adults are much more sandy-coloured than 

 in summer, the whole of the feathers haying sandy margins, 

 obscuring even the grey head ; all the feathers of the under surface 

 are broadly margined with pale ashy rose-colour : " bill golden 

 yellow, with the tip dusky ; tarsi and toes black ; iris dark brown " 

 (Jong). 



Young birds in first winter plumage show an almost, total absonce 

 of rose-colour on the rump, and the general tone of the plumage is 

 dull sandy brown, the head a little more dusky. 



Hub. Kamtschatka to Japan, Eastern Siberia, and Xorthorn 

 China. 



a>b- d" $ a d. Kamtschatka. Purchased. 

 sk. 



c. S j uv - sk. Kultuk, Lake Baikal, Nov. 10. Purchased, 



d. Ad. sk. Hakodadi, Japan {H. Pryer). It. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



e. <5 ad. sk. Hakodadi, Feb. 26, 1865 (H. Gould Coll. 



JVJiif.ely). 



f. Ad. sk. Hakodadi, Nov. 21, 1864. Henry Whitely [C. 

 y. <$ ad. sk. Hakodadi, Feb. 26, 1865. Henry Whitely [C. 

 h. 2 ad. sk. Hakodadi, March 3, 1865. Henry Whitely [C. 



