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52. PYRRHULORHYNCHA. 



Type. 

 Pyrrhulorhyncha, Giglioli, Ibis, 1865, p. 58 P. palustris. 



Range. The countries bordering the Mediterranean, thence from 

 Astrachan to Yarkand in suitable localities, reappearing again in 

 Japan. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Larger : wing 3-8 - 5 inches. 



a'. Sides of body distinctly streaked with blackish 



or dark chestnut stripes palustris, p. 473. 



b'. Sides of body perfectly uniform or with ob- 

 solete reddish shaft-lines pyrrhuloides, p. 475. 



b. Smaller: wing 34-3 - 2 inches ; sides of body uni- 



form, without any shaft-streaks pyrrhulina, p. 475. 



1. Pyrrhulorhyncha palustris. 



Emberiza palustris, Savi, Orn. Tosc. ii. p. 91 (1829), iii. p. 225 (1831) ; 



Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 114 bis ; Bp. Faun. Ital., Ucc. pi. xi. (1832) ; 



Tenim. Man. d'Om. iii. p. 220 (1835) ; Werner, Atlas, Granivores, 



pi. to p. 220 ; Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 182 (1837) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



ii. p. 377 (1844); Poiut/s, Ibis, I860, p. 139; Ehces $ Buckley, 



Ibis, 1870, p. 194; Salvad. Blench. Ucc. Ital. p. 167 (1887). 

 Schcenicola intermedia, " Michah." Bp. Rev. Crit. p. 164 (1850) ; 



id. Consp. i. p. 465 (1850). 

 Schcenicola pyrrhuloides (nee Pall.), Bp. Rev. Crit. p. 164 (1850) ; 



id. Consp. i. p. 463 (1850) ; Jaub. et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. 



p. 168 (1859) ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 90 (1869). 

 Cynchramus pyrrhuloides, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 130 ; Brehm, 



Vogelf. p. 115 (1855) ; Deyl. # Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 325 (1867). 

 Cynchramus palustris &c, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 115 (1855). 

 Emberiza intermedia, Selys-Longch. Naum. 1856, p. 387; Shelley, 



B. Egypt, p. 147, pi. 3. tig. 2 (1872). 

 Pyrrhulorhyncha palustris, Giglioli, Ibis, 1865, p. 58. 

 Emberiza pyrrhuloides (nee Pcdl.), Salvad. Faun. Ital., Ucc. p. 144 



(1871); Saunders, Rns, 1871, p. 218; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 225 



(1875) ; Danf. # Harvie Broivn, Ibis, 1875, p. 312 ; Gigl. Ms, 



1881, p. 202 ; id. Avif. Ital. p. 54 (1886). 

 Citrinella pyrrhuloides (nee Pcdl.), Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 114, 



no. 7709 (1870). 

 Citrinella intermedia, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 114, no. 7710 (1870). 

 Cynchramus intermedius, Iletigl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 668 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above reddish brown, the feathers of 

 the mantle and back blackish, edged with rufous-brown, and sandy- 

 buff margins ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform 

 ashy ; lesser and median coverts chestnut, with black bases to the 

 feathers ; greater coverts blackish, edged with rufous, sandy whitish 

 on the margins : bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky 

 brown, externally pale brown, the primaries rufous at the base of 

 the outer web, and sandy white for the rest of its extent ; upper 

 tail-coverts a little browner grey than the rump ; two centre tail- 

 feathers dark brown, margined with reddish brown towards the 



