292 FErtTGILLID^!. 



V. ? ad. sk. Candahar, Jan. 13, 1881. Col. C. Swinboe [P.]. 



e'. <S ad. sk. Gilgit, Jan. 1877 (J Biddulph). Hume Coll. 



d'. $ ad. sk. Gilgit, Dec. 13, 1877 (J. Biddulph). Hume Coll. 



2. Petronia brachydactyla. 



Petronia brachydactyla, Bp. Consp. i.p. 513 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. 

 Tb. i. p. 157 (1850) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 47 (1854) ■ 

 Tristr. Ibis, 1868, p. 206, pi. 6; Hengl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2 

 p. 624 (1870) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 255 (1876) ; Dresser, B 

 Eur. iii. p. 611, pi. 180. fig. 1 (1877); Tristr. Faun. $Flor. Palest 

 p. 69, pi. x. (1884). 



Pyrenestes lacteus, Von Mull. Naum. i. Heft 4, p. 29 (1851). 



Euplectes (?) griseus, Heuql, Syst. Uebers. p. 39 (1856). 



Carpospiza longipennis, Von Mull. Beitr. Orn. Afr. pi. 10 (1854) ; Bp. 

 Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1855, p. 75. 



Carpospiza bracbydactyla, Heugl. J.f. O. 1863, p. 31, 1868, p. 79. 



Carpospiza grisea, Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 406. 



Fringilla bracbydactyla, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 85, no. 7247 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above uniform pale ashy brown ; 

 wing-coverts brown, edged with ashy brown, whity brown on the 

 margins and tips ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish brown, 

 fringed with lighter brown ; quills dark brown, blackish towards 

 the end, edged with pale brown, whitish on the outer primaries and 

 secondaries ; upper tail-coverts like the back, the outer ones mar- 

 gined with whity brown ; tail-feathers pale brown, darker brown 

 towards the end of the tail, with a white spot at the cud of the 

 inner web, becoming larger towards the outermost feather, which 

 is also margined with white ; head like the back ; lores and a faint 

 superciliary streak, as well as the eyelid, pale sandy ; ear-coverts 

 light brown ; cheeks, throat, and under surface of body isabelline 

 brown, sandy brown on the fore neck, breast, and sides of body ; 

 thighs sandy brown ; under tail-coverts white, with dusky centres 

 and darker shaft-lines ; under wing-coverts and axillaries sandy 

 brown like the breast ; quills below ashy, isabelline on the inner 

 edge : " bill and feet pale fleshy horn-colour ; the lower mandible 

 more dusky : iris dark brown " (Heuglin). Total length 5' 6 inches, 

 ciilmen 0"5, wing 3-75, tail 24, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Not perceptibly different from the male. Total 

 length 5-35 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-75, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-7. 



Bab. From Arabia to Palestine and thence to Persia. 



a. Ad. sk. Kasbaya, Palestine, May 30, Sbarpe Coll. 



1884 (H. B. Tristram). 



b. r? ad. sk. Kullas el Sbukif, Palestine. Canon Tristram [CI 



c. $ ad. sk. Plain of Zebdany. Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 d <$ ad sk. Below the Cedars of Lebanon, Sahin-Godman Coll. 



June 15, 1864 (H. B. T). 



e, f. d 2 ad. sk. West of Bam, S.E. Persia, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



J April 27, 1872. [C]. 



g. Ad. sk. Near Kobrud, N. of Ispahan, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



July 17, 1872. [C.]. 



h. J juv. sk. Shiraz, June 1869 (Sir O. Hume Coll. 



St. John). 



