52. PTRRHULOEHYNCHA. 475 



2. Pyrrhulorhyncha pyxrhuloid.es. 



Emberiza pyrrhuloides, Pall. Zooyr. Posso-Asiat. ii. p. 49 (1811) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 377 (1844) ; Eversm. J. f. O. 1853, p. 291 ; 



Senertz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 249; 



Scully, Str. F. 1876, p. 166 ; Finsch, Ibis, 1877, p. 53 ; Dresser, B. 



Eur. iv. p. 249, pi. 222. tigs. 2, 3 (1878); Gatke, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 378 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 218 ; id. Ibis, 1883, p. 11 ; Homeyer 



§■ Tancre, MT. om. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 90. 

 Eiuberiza caspia, Menetr. Cat. Pais. Cave. p. 41 (1832). 

 Schcenicola pyrrhuloides, Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 177 



(1876). 

 Pvrrhulorhvncha pyrrhuloides, Finsch, Verh. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. 



'Wien, 1879, p. 106. 

 Cynehranius pyrrhuluides. Boyd. B. Cauc. p. 72 (1879). 

 Emberiza sehceiiiclus, var. pvrrhuloides, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. 



p. 135 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above sandy rufous, shaded with 

 ashy, the feathers of the mantle with black centres slightly tinged 

 with chestnut ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ashy grey, 

 paler and more pearly grey on the latter ; lesser wing-coverts pale 

 chestnut ; median coverts the same, with black bases ; greater 

 coverts black, externally pale chestnut, creamy buff on the edges ; 

 bastard-wing and primary- coverts dusky, edged with isabelline, a 

 little more chestnut on the former : quills dusky blackish, externally 

 sandy buff, inclining to whitish or isabelline on the ends of the 

 outer webs ; centre tail-feathers pale sandy, browDer in the centre 

 and blackish along the shaft ; crown of head black, separated from 

 the back by a broad white collar, posteriorly ashy grey ; feathers 

 round eye and ear-coverts black like the crown ; cheeks white like 

 the sides of the neck ; throat black ; remainder of under surface 

 from the fore neck downwards pure white, with a faint ashy tinge 

 on the sides of the upper breast ; thighs, under tail-coverts, under 

 wing-coverts, and axillaries white ; quills below dusky, white along 

 their inner edge. Total length 6 - 5 inches, culmen - 45, wing 3*4, 

 tail 3*1, tarsus 0*8. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in the same way as in P. 

 palustris. Total length 6*3 inches, culmen - 45, wing 3*1, tail 2-65, 

 tarsus - 75. 



Hub. From Astrachan to Turkestan and Yarkand. 



a. J ad. sk. Astrachan. Hume Coll. 



b, c. cS 2 ad- sk. Syr-Darya, Nov. Dr. Severtzoff [CI 

 d,e. cS 2 a( i- s k- -Fort Perowsk, Syr- Darya, Jan. Dr. Severtzoff [C.]. 

 /. cJ ad. sk. Saisan, June 2 (Dr. O. Finsch). Geogr. Soc. Bremen. 



3. Pyrrhulorhyncha pyrrhulina. 



Scbceniclus pyrrhulinns, Swinh. Ibis, 1876, p. 333, pi. viii. fig. 2. 

 Schcenicola pyrrhulina, Blakist. fy Pryer, D>is, 1878, p. 243 ; Seeb. 



Ibis, 1879, p. 40. 

 Emberiza scbceniclus, subsp. palustris (nee Savi), Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 



p. 40. 



