55. FRING1LLAR1.V. 557 



2'. d ad. sk. Bushire, March 1885. A. J. V. Palmer, Esq. 



[P.J 

 a. Ad. sk. Douloulpur, Sind, 1877 (G. Hume Coll. 



A. Murray). 



55. FRINGILLARIA. _ 



Type. 

 Fringillaria, Sioaius. Classif. JB. ii. p. 290 (1837) F. capensis. 



Range. The whole of Africa. Palestine and Arabia to North- 

 western and Central India ; Japan. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Inner lining of wing chestnut or rufous, 



which extends to the base of the inner web, 



sometimes (in F. tahapisi) very slightly 



developed and confined to the secondaries ; 



under wing-coverts rufous. 



«'. Throat ashy grey or blackish ; sides of face 



rather strongly streaked with black. 



a". Head light grey with blackish streaks ; 



no pale streak in the middle of the 



crown ; throat light grey, overspreading 



the whole of the fore neck and chest. 



a"'. Median and greater wing-coverts 



with blackish centres ; back streaked 



with black ; a black line through 



the eye and another along the upper 



edge of the cheeks striulata, p. 661. 



b". Median and greater coverts uniform 

 rufous ; back nearly uniform rufous ; 

 streaks through the eye and along 

 the upper edge of the cheeks ashy 



grey saharce, p. 563. 



b". Head black or dark brown, with a broad 

 pale streak down the centre of the 

 crown ; throat blackish or dark ashy, 

 not extending over the fore neck and 

 chest, 

 c'". Primaries dark brown, edged with 



rufous tahapisi, p. 558. 



d'". Primaries entirely rufous across the 



base septems/riata, p. 569. 



b'. Throat pale ashy or if abelline brown ; sides 



of face not banded with black. 



c". Quills dusky brown, edged with rufous. 



e". Back ashy brown, streaked distinctly 



with blackish. 



a*. Head exactly like the back and 



not any lighter in colour impetuani J 2 > P- 563. 



b*. Head decidedly more ashy grey 



than the back, which is browner, striolata $, p. 561. 

 /'". Back nearly uniform rufous, without 



streaks saharce § , p. 563. 



