168 FRTNGILLARIA SOCOTRANA. 



The most northern and eastern range known to me for 

 F. taliapisi is the island of Socotra, from whence there is a 

 good series of specimens in the British Museum, including the 

 types of F. insularis. Here they range from the sea level up 

 to 3,500 feet, above which elevation they are said to be replaced 

 by F. socotrana. 



Fringillaria socotrana. 



Fringillaria socotrana, Grant and Forbes, Bull. Liverpool Mus. ii. p. 2 

 (1900) Socotra. 



Adult male. Above somewhat similar to F. tahapisi, but differing in 

 having a large whitish patch on the rump. Wing : with the lesser and 

 median coverts cliestnut, with obscure dusky shaft-stripes ; most of the 

 remainder of the wing-feathers with broad chestnut edges, the brown and 

 chestnut colouring on the closed wing being of about equal extent ; under 

 surface of quills dark brown with the inner margins buff, like the under 

 wing-coverts. Sides of head, chin and upper half of throat white, with a 

 broad black band through the eye to just beyond the ear-coverts ; another 

 broad black band extending through the cheeks and joining the former band 

 behind the ear-coverts, while a very narrow black line divides the sides of 

 the head from the upper half of the throat ; remainder of the under parts 

 bufl' inclining to cinnamon on the lower throat and sides of the chest. " Iris 

 brown ; culmen blackish horn ; cutting edges of upper and the whole of the 

 lower mandible orange-yellow ; tarsi and feet flesh-colour ; claws blackish 

 horn." Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-75, tail 2-2, tarsus 07. 

 <? , 6. 2. 99. Adho Dimellus (Grant and Forbes). 



The Socotra Rock-Bunting inhabits the island of that 

 name. 



The types were discovered by Messrs. Ogilvie, Grant and 

 Forbes, at Adho Dimellus, at 3,500 to 4,500 feet above the sea 

 level, where the species apparently entirely replaces F. tahapisi, 

 which is abundant on the lower parts of the island. 



