284 



FKINGILLID^. 



k. $ ad. sk. 



/. 3 ad. sk. 



m. 5 ad. sk. 



w. 3 ad. sk. 



o, p, q, r. Ad. sk. 

 s. $ a( i- sk. 



t. 3 ad. sk. 

 m. 3 juv. sk. 

 v. ic. 3 ad. sk. 

 x, y. Sterna of 

 spec, c, d. 



Yarkand, Nov. 20, 1873 

 (J. Biddulph). 



Yarkand, June 27, 1875 

 (J. Scully). 



Yarkand, Jan. 1875 (J. 

 Scully). 



Coziar, June 1, 1874 (J. 

 Biddulph). 



Kashgar (Dr.Bellew). 



Khusan, Western Afghan- 

 istan, April 16, 1885. 



Kandahar, Dec. 1880. 



Kandahar, Feb. 2, 1881. 



Kandahar, March 1881. 



Persia. 



36. ERYTHROSPIZA. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



India Museum. 

 Dr. Aitchison. 



Col. C. Swinhoe [P. 

 Col. C. Swinhoe [P. 

 Col. C. Swinhoe [P. 

 Sir 0. St, John [C], 



Type. 



Erythrospiza, Bp. Faun. Ital. The. pi. 35, text (1832-41) . E. githaginea 

 Bucanetes, Cub. Mas. Rein. Th. i. p. 164 (1850) E. githaginea 



Head of Erythrospiza githaginea. 



Range. Desert countries of Northern Africa, through Palestine 

 and Persia to Central Asia and Mongolia ; North-western India. 



Key to the Species. 



With a much larger and stouter bill; greater 

 wing-coverts and quills externally brown or 

 pale rosy githaginea, p. 284. 



With much smaller bill; greater wing-coverts 

 and quills black with a crimson margin, espe- 

 cially distinct on the inner secondaries, which 

 appear subterminally black mongolica, p. 287. 



1. Erythrospiza githaginea. 



Fringilla githaginea, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24 (1823). 



Pyrrhula payraudaei, Audouin, Expl. somm. PI. Ois. Egypte, p. 286, 

 pi. 5. tig. 8 (1825). 



Pyrrhula <nthaginea, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 400 (1826) ; Boux, Orn. 

 Pi-ov. p?377, pi. 74 bis (c. 1826); Temm. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 249 

 (1835) ; Werner, Atlas, Granivores, Suppl. pis. 7, 8 ; Bolle, Nanm. 

 1858, p. 369 ; id. Ibis, 1862, p. 346 ; Leith Adams, Pais, 1864, 

 p. 23; Bree, B. Eur. iii. pi. to p. 81 (1864) ; Wright, Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 489 ; F. Godman, Ibis, 1872, p. 213; Hume, t. c. p. 468. 



Erythrospiza githaginea, Bp. Faun. Ital., Ucc. pi. 35. tig. 3 (1832- 



