472 FRINGILLID.E. 



,s e . With white on the outer 



tail-feather G8. Junco, p. 646. 



k'". First primary about equal to 



secondaries; head crested. .. . 95. Schistospiza, p. 806. 

 h". Wings reaching 1 nearly to the end [p. 572. 



of the tail, falling short by less j 57. Plectrophenax, 

 than the length of the tarsus . . | 59. Rhyncophanes, 



[p. 589. 

 B. Hind claw longer than the hind toe .... 58. Calcaeius, p. 579. 



51. UROCYNCHRAMUS. 



Type. 

 Urocynchramus, Prjevahki, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. 



p. 309 (1877) U. pylzowi. 



Bill of Urocynchramus pylzowi. 

 Range. Western China. 



1. Urocynchramus pylzowi. 



Urocynchramus pylzowi, Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 309, 

 pl.'vii. (1877) ; 'Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 32 (1879). 



Adult male. General colour above sandy brown, the feathers 

 centred with black ; lesser wing-coverts reddish brown ; median 

 coverts black, edged broadly with reddish brown ; greater coverts 

 and bastard-wing black, edged with sandy buff, paler at the ends ; 

 primary-coverts dusky brown, fringed with reddish brown ; quills 

 blackish brown, edged with whity brown, the inner secondaries with 

 reddish brown ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, broadly edged with whity brown, the four outer feathers 

 rosy, tipped with white, the third feather with an oblique brown 

 mark near the end of the inner web, larger on the fourth feather ; 

 crown of the head like the back, and similarly streaked ; nape and 

 hind neck rather paler and more fulvescent ; lores and a narrow 

 eyebrow rosy, or ashy with a rosy tinge, as also the feathers round 

 the eye and sides of face ; ear-coverts ashy, tinged with rosy, 

 browner on the upper edge ; checks and under surface of body pale 

 rosy, the throat and breast washed with hoary whitish edges to the 

 feathers ; abdomen whitish, with a rosy tinge ; sides of body and 

 flanks pale brown, streaked with black centres to the feathers ; 

 thighs ashy ochreous ; under tail-coverts rosy ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries ashy white, washed with rosy near the edge of the 

 wing ; quills below dusky, the inner edge reddish ashy. Total 

 length 6 inches, culnien - 45, wing 2-8, tail 3*1, tarsus 0*9. 



Hub. Western China. 



a. d ad. sk. Kokonoor, October. General Prjevalski [C.]. 



