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The female has the front of the head somewhat Jess dark, 

 and has less of the crimson on the rump. She is also slightly 

 smaller. — Hume, " Lahore to Yarkand.' n 



752 ter— Montifringilla adamsi, Moore. 



Dimensions. — Length, 6*6 to 7; expanse, 12 to 12 - 5 ; wing, 

 4*1 to 4*5; second primary longest; first, 0*08 ; third, Ol ; 

 fourth, - 45 ; fifth, 0*75; sixth, 105 shorter; tail from vent, 

 2'6 to 2*85 ; exterior tail feathers, 0*2 shorter than central ones; 

 expanse, 12*5 to 12'8; tarsus, 0'8; foot, greatest length, 1*5 ; 

 greatest width, 1*0 ; mid-toe to root of claw, 0'6 ; its claw, straight 

 from root to point, 0*17 to 0'25; hind toe similarly, 0*26; 

 its claw, 0*25 to 0*4. In old birds the claws get worn down 

 very short ; bill at front, 0*48 to 0-52. 



Description. — Legs, feet, and claws black ; irides brown ; 

 bill, black in summer, orange yellow dusky on culmen and 

 brown at tip in winter. 



Plumage. — In summer the whole of the top of the head, 

 nape, back, scapulars, and rump pale brown, darker and 

 greyer on the head, paler and duller on the back of the neck ; 

 central upper tail-coverts blackish brown ; lateral ones white ; 

 central tail feathers blackish brown, scarcely perceptibly mar- 

 gined with fawn ; lateral tail feathers pure white, tipped for 

 about 0'25 with blackish brown, very narrowly margined with 

 fawn ; lesser wing-coverts and tertiaries nearly unicolorous 

 with the portions of the back they adjoin ; greater coverts of 

 primaries white, except the tips and bases, which are greyish 

 brown ; secondary greater coverts broadly tipped white ; 

 primaries and secondaries very dark brown, the earlier of the 

 former narrowly margined on the outer webs with yellowish 

 white, and the latter ones with a white spot on the inner webs 

 near the tips; the first secondary with two-fifths of the inner 

 web white ; the last with half the inner and two-thirds of the 

 outer webs of the same colour ; intervening quills intermediate 

 between these extremes in the amount of white ; wincr-liningf, 

 axillaries, and under tail-coverts pure white ; rest of the lower 

 surface yellowish white, tinged greyish on the throat, owing to 

 the dark bases of the feathers showing partially through. 



In the autumnal-plumaged freshly-moulted birds, the lores 

 and feathers impending on the nostrils are whiter ; the whole upper 

 plumage has a faintly rufcscenfe fawny tinge ; the tertiaries 

 and central tail feathers are broadly margined with rufescent 

 fawn ; the lateral upper tail-coverts, the lower ditto, and the 



