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FRINGILLID.B. 



dusky centres to the feathers ; lores ashy : eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts 

 dark brown washed with olive ; cheeks light ochreous brown, with 

 a distinct malar streak of dusky ; throat dull white, streaked with 

 brown ; fore neck and breast ochreous buff, with distinct dusky 

 centres to the feathers ; abdomen white ; sides of body and flanks 

 brown with dusky stripes ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts white, 

 with brown centres to the longer ones ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries ochreous buff, the outer ones with brown bases ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " bill light fleshy brown ; 

 legs, feet, and claws also light fleshy yellow ; iris dark brown " (C. 

 T. Bingham): " legs and feet livid fleshy ; claws bronzy " (J. Scully). 

 Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 04, wing 3, tail 2, tarsus 0*75. 



Young male. Kesembles the old female, but has the stripes on the 

 throat and breast rather smaller and not so distinct. Total length 

 5-2 inches, culmen 045, wing 3-1, tail 2, tarsus 0*7. 



Young birds are generally recognized by the yellow tint on the 

 under surface and the yellowish tips to the wing-coverts, which 

 form a very distinct double wing-bar. 



Winter-plumaged examples of the adult female are always more 

 buff than in summer, when the under surface gets bleached to dull 

 white, with the stripes very much obliterated. 



Hah. Northern Europe and Siberia to Kamtschatka, wintering to 

 the south of these localities, especially in India and the Burmese 

 Peninsula. Accidental in Western Europe. 



a. 2 ad. sk. 



b. cj ad. sk. 

 r. 2 ad. sk. 



d. <3 ad. sk. 



e ,f- d juv. sk. 



y, h. (3 2 ad. sk. 



i. c? ad. sk. 



k. 2 ad. sk. 

 /. $ ad. sk. 



m. 2 ad. sk. 

 n. (3 ad. sk. 

 o,p. (3 ad.; q. 2 



ad. sk. 

 r. 2 ad - sk - 

 s, t. <3 ad. sk. 



u. 2 ad. sk. 

 v. <3 juv. sk. 



w. J ad. sk. 



.r, y. 6 2 ad - sk. 



Kamtschatka. 

 Russia. 

 ■ Archangel. 



Wytegra, N. Russia, June 22, 

 1869 ( W. Meres). 



Onega Lake, June 17, 1869 

 ( W. Meves). 



Karadagh, Asia Minor, May 20, 

 1876 (C. G. Danford). 



Karij Valley, Elburz Moun- 

 tains, Aug. 8, 1872. 



Altai Mountains. 



Chin, Altai Mountains, June 9, 

 1876 (Br. O. Finsch). 



Turkestan (Dr. O. Finsch). 



Afghanistan (Dr. Griffith). 



Kandahar, April 1881. 



Said Yanoo, May 5, 1881. 

 Khusan, W. Afghanistan, 



April 1885. 

 Sun-koh, May 18, 1885. 

 Sehwan, Sind, Oct. 19, 1887 



(A. O.H.). 

 Goond, Sind Vallev, Mav 25, 



1871 ( W. E. Brooks). " 

 Sambhur, April 1878 (K. M. 



Adam). 



Purchased. 

 Moscow Mus. [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[0-1 

 Gould Coll. 

 Geogr. Soc. Bremen. 



Geogr. Soc. Bremen. 

 India Museum. 

 Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 



Col. Swinhoe [P.l 

 Dr. Aitchison [C.J. 



Dr. Aitchison [C.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



