420 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



exterior margins of the lateral tail-feathers and some of the 

 larger wing-coverts are tinged with the same colour, while the 

 under surface is more decidedly yellowish white. — Hume, 

 " Lahore to Yarkand." 



752 quat. — Montifringilla ruficollis, Blanf. 



Male. — Forehead whitish, passing into the rather pale umber 

 brown of the head ; supercilia white ; lores and a line from 

 them passing under the eye black ; this line is continued pos- 

 teriorly over the ear-coverts, and its colour changes to dark 

 ferruginous ; back umber brown, with broad central dusky 

 streaks to the feathers; rump more ferruginous; wings brown; 

 the first primary with the outer web white, the others with 

 fulvous outer margins, all with white internal edges, and a 

 broad white wing band, only visible on the expanded wing, 

 formed by a large spot on the inner webs of all the primaries 

 except the first four, and the whole basal portion of the inner 

 web of the remaining quills, except the last three, which have 

 broad fulvous borders ; smaller wing-coverts mostly white ; 

 angle of the wing greyish ; upper tail-coverts very long, pale 

 umber, with a fulvous tinge ; central tail-feathers and the tips 

 of the remainder for about half an inch dark brown, with 

 fulvous margins ; basal portion of all the tail-feathers, except 

 the central pair, pale ashy, with some white on both inner and 

 outer webs between the grey portion and the brown tips, in- 

 creasing in quantity on the outer feathers, and running up 

 the external web which is entirely white in the outermost 

 pair ; sides of the head below the black eye-streak, chin and 

 throat white, with two black lines, one from each side of the 

 base of the lower mandible, running backwards and diverging ; 

 ear-coverts bright ferruginous ; sides of the neck the same, but 

 a little paler; the rufous tint forming a demi-collar, only inter- 

 rupted for a very narrow space in front ; remainder of the 

 lower parts white, with an isabelline tinge; iris reddish brown; 

 bill and legs black. Length, 6-0 ; wing, 375 ; tail, 2*35 ; 

 tarsus, 0-82 ; bill at front, 042. 



The female wants the whitish forehead and the rufescent tinge 

 on the rump ; the demi-collar is brown posteriorly, and, in the only 

 specimen obtained, it is continuous round the front of the neck. 



The dimensions given above were taken from a male before 

 skinning. The following are taken from two other skins— a 

 male and a female : — 



Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Hind claw. Bill from Bill from 



forehead. gape. 



Male, 3-63; 2 23; 085; 036; 042; 0-53 



Female, 3-56; 21; 087; 32; 43; 054 



—Blanford, J. A. S. B. 



