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783. Montifringilla blanfordi. BlanforcTs Mountain-Finch. 



Montifringilla blanfordi, Hume, S. F. iv, p. 487 (1876) ; id. Cat. no. 

 7~y2 quint. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 264, pi. iv. 



Coloration. Forehead white, with a median black streak; a large 

 patch between the eye and the bill black, extending down to the 

 cheeks and up to the forehead ; a short but broad white super- 

 cilium ; cheeks and ear-coverts white ; the whole upper plumage 

 fulvous ; wing-coverts and tertiaries brown, broadly edged with 

 fulvous ; quills dark brown, edged with fulvous, the last few 

 primaries with a patch of white on the outer web ; all the quills 

 except the first two or three primaries also with a patch of white 

 on the inner web ; middle tail-feathers brown edged with fulvous, 

 the others ashy brown, then white and broadly tipped brown ; 

 sides of the neck ferruginous, reaching forward to the sides of the 

 throat and breast but not meeting in front ; chin black ; remainder 

 of lower plumage pale fulvous-white. 



Xone of the birds in the British Museum series of this species 

 are sexed. The sexes are, however, probably alike. Some few 

 birds with the chin white or pale brown are obviously young birds 

 just fledged ; they resemble the adult in other respects, but have 

 the marks on the head paler, and some have the lower plumage 

 suffused with yellow. 



In the dry state the bill is bluish and the legs black. 



Length about 6 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 3-8 ; tarsus -7 ; bill from gape 

 55. 



Distribution. In the Hume Collection there are four specimens 

 of this species which were procured " near Darjeeling " and 

 numerous others from Tibet immediately north of Sikhim. Some 

 of these latter are quite young birds. 



Montifringilla ruficollis, Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 66 ; Hume, 

 S. F. vii, p. 420; id. Cat. no. 752 quat. ; Sharpe t Cat. 



784. Montifringilla ruficollis. The Red-necked Mountain-Finch. 



56; Hume, 

 B. M. xii, 

 p. 263. 



Coloration. Male. Eorehead whitish, turning to ashy and becoming 

 umber-brown on the crown, nape, and hind neck ; a broad white 

 supercilium ; lores and a band under the eye and over the ear- 

 coverts black, passing into rufous posteriorly; sides of the nape, sides 

 of the neck, the ear-coverts, and the sides of the lower throat ferru- 

 ginous ; chin, throat, and cheeks pure white ; a moustachial streak 

 black ; remainder of lower plumage white tinged with fulvous ; 

 back and scapulars umber-brown streaked with dark brown ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts plain umber-brown ; middle tail-feathers 

 brown, the others chiefly ashy with broad brown tips, the portion of 

 each feather immediately before the brown tip being white : lesser 

 wing coverts brown ; median and greater coverts chiefly white ; 

 winglet and primary-coverts dark brown ; quills brown margined 

 with fulvous ; the outer web of the first primary entirely white ; all 



