55. FRINGILLAKIA. 561 



3. Fringillaria striolata. 



Pringillaria striolata, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24 (1823). 



Eniberiza striolata, Cretzschm. in Rupp. Atlas, p. 15, pi. 10. fig. 9 



(1826) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. iv. p. 640 (1840) ; Werner, Atlas, 



Granivorcs, pi. (1840) ; Scld. Rev. Crit. p. lxix (1844) ; Riipp. 



Syst. Uebers. p. 78 (1845) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 42 (1850) ; 



Bree, B. Eur. iii. p. 44, cum tab. (1864); Tristr. Ibis, 1867, 



p. 367 ; Hume, Ibis, 1809, p. 355 ; Ehves §• Buckley, Lbis, 1870, 



p. 194 ; Hume, t. c. p. 399, 1871, p. 37 ; Fritseh, Fog. Eur. tab. 25. 



tig. 16 (1870) ; Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 197, pi. 213 (1871) ; Heugl. 



Om. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 666 (1871) ; Butler, Str. F. 1876, p. 35 ; 



Blanf. East. Pers. ii. p. 258 (1876) ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. 



pp. Ill, 410, 1879, p. 107 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 47 (1879) ; 



Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, p. 186 (1884). 

 Fringillaria striolata, Swains. C/assif. B. ii. p. 290 (1837) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. ii. p. 378 (1844) ; Bp. i'onsp. i. p. 467 (1850) ; Selys- 



Longch. Rev. etMag. de Zool. 1857, p. 124 ; Deyl. et Gerbe, Om. Eur. 



i. p. 306 (1867) ; Locke, Expl. Sci. Alger., Ois. i. p. 181 (1867) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 116, no. 7726 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. JST.O.- 



Afr. iv. App. p. cxlvii (1871) ; Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ltd. B. p. 463 



(1873) ; Adam, Str. F. 1873, p. 388 ; Hume, t. c. p. 420 ; id. Str. 



F. 1877, p. 329, 1878, vol. ii. p. 74 ; Butler, t. c. p. 184 ; Tristr. 



Faun. Sf Flor. Palest, p. 72 (1884). 

 Polymitra striolata, Cab. Mm. Hein. Tb. i. p. 129 (1850). 



Adult male. General colour above sandy brown, streaked with 

 black centres to the feathers ; the lower back and rump rather more 

 uniform and less strongly mottled ; lesser wing-coverts uniform pale 

 chestnut ; median and greater coverts pale chestnut, streaked with 

 blackish centres ; bastard-wing, primary- coverts, and quills blackish, 

 externally edged with pale chestnut, especially broad near the base 

 of the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts sandy brown, with pale mar- 

 gins and dusky centres ; tail-feathers blackish, edged with sandy 

 rufous, especially distinct on the outer feather ; crown of head more 

 ashy than the back and distinctly streaked with black centres ; eye- 

 lid and a distinct superciliary stripe white ; lores and a broad line 

 along the upper edge of the ear-coverts blackish ; remainder of ear- 

 coverts ashy, with a white spot behind them ; feathers below the 

 eye ashy white, followed by a line of blackish along the upper 

 margin of the cheeks, which are ashy whitish and form another 

 stripe, which is followed by a malar line of blackish which sepa- 

 rates the cheeks from the throat, the latter being ashy white : 

 lower throat, fore neck, and chest ashy grey, mottled and streaked 

 with black spots ; remainder of the breast pale sandy fulvous or 

 deep isabelline, paler down the centre of the abdomen, and slightly 

 deeper on the thighs and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts sandy rufous ; quills dusky below, with the quill-lining 

 rufous : " upper mandible brown, lower one yellow : legs yellow ; 

 feet brownish yellow " (A. O. Hume). Total length 5-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-35, wing 3, tail 2 - 3, tarsus - 55. 



Adult female. Not so strongly marked as the male and rather 

 duller in colour ; the head pale sandy brown like the back ; the 

 streaks not so pale on the sides of the head and sandy buff instead 



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