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Length, *, inches ; wing 2-95 ; tail 2-4 ; tarsus O'6 ; culmen 0-4. 

 The female has not the rose colour on the rump as in the male, and the 

 breast is less broadly streaked with dusky. 

 Hab. Himalayas. 



821. Acanthis fringillirostris, Up. and Schleg. Monogr. Loxiens, 



p. 45. Linaria cannabina, Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 242 (pt.) ; Blanf., East. 

 Pers.\\*v* 2 46; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 108, 389; Bidd., Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 86. The FINCH-BILLED LINNET. 



Above pale reddish brown, ashy about the hind neck, the mantle with a few 

 nearly obsolete dark shaft lines ; the back nearly uniform chestnut ; rump 

 paler, edged with rufescent ; wing coverts like the back ; ; quills blackish ; 

 primaries and primary coverts edged with white; secondaries tipped with 

 white ; upper tail coverts black, edged with ash colour ; tail black; the edges 

 of both webs white ; crown of head and nape ashy brown ; base of forehead 

 ashy, a crimson patch on the occiput ; lores and found the eye bufty white ; 

 throat buffy white, with minute brown spots ; foreneck and breast bright scarlet ; 

 sides of the body and flanks pale reddish brown, mottled with brown centres ; 

 lower breast and abdomen dull buffy white ; under tail coverts buffish white ; 

 under wing coverts and axillaries white. 



Length. 5*3 inches; wings 3" 15; tail 2-25 ; tarsus 0*65 ; culmen 0*4. 



The female is like that of A. cannabina. 



Hab. Asia Minor to the Caucasus, and Persia. Found also in Sind and 

 Arabia during winter. 



Gen. Montifringilla. z, 



Claws long and slightly curved, the third primary shorter than the first. 

 Other characters as in Fringilla. 



822. Montifringilla adamst Mo-ore, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 482; 



Adams, P Z. S. 1859, p. 178 ; Gould, B. Asia, vol. v., pi. ; Jerd., . Ind. ii. 

 p. 413; Sir, F. iv. p. 486 ; vii. pp. 41*2, 418 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. 

 B. ii. p. 473. ADAMS' MOUNTAIN FINCH. 



Head and upper surface of the body pale grey brown or ash colour ; wings 

 brownish black, the greater coverts and secondaries tipped with wrn'te; 

 spurious wing white, each feather tipped with brown ; two central tail 

 feathers brownish black, the lateral ones narrowly tipped with black ; under 

 surfaee of the body creamy white. Bill, legs, and feet black. 



Length.- 6 inches ; wing 3'75; tail 2-5. 



Hab. Ladakh. According to Adams it is common on the bare and 

 barren mountains of Ladakh and Little Thibet, and feeds on the seeds of the 

 few plants found in these desolate and dreary-looking mountains. Its cry is 

 like that of a lark, and its habits on the ground very similar. The nest is 

 composed of grass, and generally placed in the long dykes by the Tartars, over 

 their dead. 



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