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rosy ; lores brighter rosy ; eyebrow pale rosy, sandy brown poste- 

 riorly ; feathers round eye brighter rosy like the lores ; ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, and throat sandy brown, with black streaks along the shaft, 

 forming spots larger and more distinct on the fore neck ; remainder 

 of under surface of body creamy white, tinged with rosy ; abdomen 

 a little paler ; sides of body sandy brown, minutely streaked with 

 black, the lower flanks creamy white tinged with rosy : thighs and 

 under tail-coverts white, with a faint rosy tinge ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white, edged with rosy, very distinct on the edge of 

 the wing ; quills below dusky, white towards the base of the inner 

 web : " bill yellow, dusky towards the tip of the upper mandible ; 

 feet blackish, as also the claws ; tarsi pale brownish ; soles of feet 

 dark ; iris dark brown " (F. Stoliczka). Total length 6*2 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 4-1, tail 2-2, tarsus 075. 



Adult female. Much duller than the male, the crown obscured 

 with sandy-brown edges ; on the wing much less rosy, the greater 

 coverts externally brown ; base of secondaries conspicuously white ; 

 on the rump very little rosy ; sides of face and under surface of 

 body paler than in the male, with scarcely any indication of black 

 streaks on the throat. Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 4 # 25, 

 tail 2 - 3, tarsus OS. 



Immature male. Like the old female, but blacker on the head, and 

 dark sandy brown on the throat and sides of the body, which have 

 distinct blackish shaft-lines. The wing resembles that of the old 

 male, and does not show the white patch at the base of the secon- 

 daries. 



Hah. From Yarkand through Persia to the Caucasus and Eastern 

 Asia Minor to Palestine, and reaching to Arabia and even to Algeria. 



a. d ad. sk. Trebizond. Zoological Society. (Type 



of species.) 



b,c. J $ ad.sk. Trebizond. Gould Coll. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Persia. Purchased. 



/. <S ad. sk. Karij Valley, Elburz Moun- W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



tains, Aug. 11, 1872. 



(j. S inim. ; Panja, Yarkand, April 17, Hume Coll. 

 h. rf ad. sk. 1874 (J. Biddulph). 



34. RHYNCHOSTRUTHUS. 



lype. 

 Rhynchostruthus, Scl. $ llartl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 170. . R. socotianus. 







Head of Rhynchostruthus socotranus. 

 Range. Confined to the island of Socotra. 



