288 



FRINGILLID-i:. 



f, (/. Ad. sk. Gilgit, Dec. 1872 



h,i,k.6 $ ad.sk. Gilgit, Dec. 31, 187 



l, vi. s 2 ad - sk 



■n. cJ ad. sk. 

 o, p. $ ad. sk. 



q. 5 ad. sk. 



r, s. <3 5 ad. sk. 



t. Ad. sk. 



Gihnt, Jan. 1878 (./. Biddulph) 



Gilo-it, Feb. 4, 1878 (J. Biddulph). 



Gilgit, April 29, 1879 (J. Bid- 

 did ph). 



Dunyan, Astor district, June 3, 

 1876 {J. Biddulph). 



Cha-uan, Southern Afghanistan, 

 April 8, 1880 (J. A. Murray |. 



Kalgan, 2000 feet, "just within 

 the outer wall of China." 



Dr. J. Scully [P.]. 

 (J. Biddulph). Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



37. PETRONIA. Type 



Petronia, Kaup, Natiirl. %s*. p. 158 (1829) P. petronia. 



Gynmorhis, Sodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 _ 



(1844) P - flavicollis. 



Xanthodira, "Suridev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Stockh. 



18o0,p.l27 •■••• P. dentata 



Carpospiza, Von Mutter, Beitr. Orn. Afr.?\. x. (1854) P. brachydactyla. 



Head of Petronia petronia. 



Range. Southern Europe, extending into Central Europe, east- 

 irds to Central Asia and Eastern Siberia as well as Northern 

 Nearly the whole of India and Africa. 



wards 

 China. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With a white spot near the end of the 



inner web of the tail-feathers. 

 a'. With a yellow spot on the fore neck; 



flanks streaked with dark brown petronia, p. 289. 



b'. With no yellow on the fore neck. 



a". Flanks heavily streaked with dark 



brown ; back also streaked petronia juv., p, 291. 



b". Flanks uniform ; back uniform .... brachydactyla o' 2 > P- 2i1 -- 



b. No white at the end of the tail-feathers. 

 c\ A more or less distinct yellow spot on 



the fore neck. 

 c". Back uniform, not streaked with 

 blackish centres to the feathers ; no 

 distinct eyebrow. 

 a". Lesser ~ wing-coverts chestnut ; 

 median coverts tipped with wbite ; 

 forming a wing-band fiavkollis J , P- 293. 



