MONTIFRINGILLA BLANFORDI. 487 
SHontifringilla Hlanfordi. 
Closely resembles M. ruficollis, but is slightly larger, has a much more 
massive bill, has one central and two lateral short black frontal 
stripes ; the entire chinbiack ;_ the back uniformiy colored, devoid 
of striations ; no white on the lesser wing coverts; more white on the 
later primaries ; basal portions of lateral tail feathers blackish, or 
dusky, not pale grey as in ruficollis. 
Dimensions, from the skin:-—Length, 5°75 ; wing, 3°8; tail, 
2°3; tarsus, 0°7; hind toe and claw, 0°55; bill at front, 
0°47, 
The legs and feet are black; the bill in one specimen en- 
tirely black, in another with the greater portion of the lower 
mandible yellow; probably becomes entirely yellow in the 
winter like other species of this genus. 
A broad frontal band, a patch over the eye, cheeks, and 
basal portion of ear coverts, pure white. 
The lores and a narrow band at the base of the mandibles black ; 
from the lores on either side a short black streak runs upwards 
towards the crown; from the base of the culmen a central 
black streak runs up across the forehead to the crown; the 
entire chin is black, and this is continued on either side as 
two short mandibular streaks; the throat, the middle of the 
breast, the vent, lower tail coverts, wing lining, and axillaries, 
white; the crown, fawn brown, becoming a rufous fawn on 
the occiput and nape; the ends of the ear coverts and the 
feathers of the sides of the neck and sides of the breast of 
this same rufous fawn color, forming an ill defined, but very 
distinct, demi-collar. 
Sides and flanks more or less tinged, and intermingled 
with fulvotis fawn; entire back, scapulars, and upper tail 
coverts a sort of fulvous fawn; the basal portions of the feathers 
when lifted, brown; the greater primary wing coverts, hair 
brown; the rest of the coverts, fulvous fawn, somewhat 
greyer on the lesser coverts and more fulvescent on the 
outer webs and tips of the secondary greater coverts;  ter- 
tiaries similar, but centered with hair brown. Primaries and 
secondaries, hair brown; the outer web of the first primary, 
pure white ; the second primary with a small patch of white 
on the outer web, just at the emargination and a narrow 
white margin on the inner web towards the base; the third 
similar, but with more white on the inner web; the fourth 
similar, but with the white on the inner web quite to the 
shaft ; the next four with a broad white band across both webs, 
but the shafts running through this band, blackish. The third 
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