196 FRINGILLIDJE. 



4. Fuertaventura, Canary Islands, H. E. Dresser, Esq. [E.I. 



March (R. O.\ 



4. Fuertaventura, March (R. G.'). Orowley Bequest. 



4. Fuertaventura, March (R. G.). Crowley Bequest. 



6. Fuertaventura, March (R. G.). Crowley Bequest. 



Erythrospiza mongolica (Swinh.). 



ETthrospiza mongolica, Sharpe. Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 287 (1888); 



Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. i. p. 89 (1903) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 



p. 242 (1909). 

 Bucanetes mongolicus, Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 331 (1902). 



Eggs of the Mongolian Bullfinch are similar to those of 

 E. amantum. They vary from ? to -79 in length, and from '55 to 

 57 in breadth. 



2. Mountains of Tekke, Turkestan, Crowley Bequest, 

 loth May. 



4. Issyk-Kul, Turkestan, 2nd May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



5. Kobdo, Altai Mountains, 12th May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Genus PETRONIA, Kaup. 

 Petronia petronia (Linn.). 



Fringilla petronia, Thien. Fortfiflanz. ges. Vog. p. 423, tab. xxxiv. fig. 18, 



a-c (1845-54). 



Petronia rupestris, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 12. fig. 10 (1855-63). 

 Petronia stulta, Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 607 (1877) ; id., Man. Pal. 



Birds, pt. i. p. 295 (1902) [part.]. 

 Pyrgita petronia, Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 218. 

 Passer petronia, Bree, Birds Eur. 2nd ed. iv. p. 43, pi. (1875) ; Rey, 



Eier Vog. Mitteleurop. p. 309, pi. 42. figs. 21-24 (1900). 

 Petronia petronia, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 289 (1888) [part.] ; 



Jourd. Eggs Eur op. Birds, p. 88, pi. 12. figs. 21-24 (1906) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 242 (1909). 

 Petronia petronia petronia, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 141 (1904). 



Nine eggs of the Rock-Sparrow are of a broad oval form and 

 slightly glossy. They are dull white or pale grey, densely streaked, 

 blotched, and marbled with umber-brown in some cases, and with 

 purplish-brown and lilac in others. In some specimens the markings 

 are very evenly distributed over the shell ; in others they are 

 extremely dense at the large end, where they form a cap, and 

 sparse elsewhere. Examples measure from *8 to '92 in length, and 

 from -6 to -64 in breadth. 



5. Aranjuez, Spain, May (H. Saunders}. Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Parnassus, Greece, 28th May (H. Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm & T. Krilper) 



