408 Ant. Reichenow und Herman Schalow: 



343. Poospiza erythrophrys. 



Sclater, Ibis 1881. No. 4. p. 599. pl. 17. Fig. 1. 



Supra fusca ochraceo tincta; pileo et regione auriculari 

 utrinque cinereis; snperciliis longis, castaneis; alis nigricantibus, 

 harurn^ tectricibus albo terminatis et remigibus primariis extus 

 albo limbatis; subtus castanea, ventre medio albicantiore ; subala- 

 ribus et remigum marginibus internis albis; cauda nigricante, 

 rectricibus duabus utrinque externis albo late terminatis; rostro 

 plumbeo, pedibus obscure carneis; iride saturate brunnea. 



Lg. tot. 5;3; alae 2,4; eaudae 2,4; rostri a rictu 0,6. 



Hab.: Sierra de Totoral, Argentine Republic. 



Obs.: Äff. P. nigroTufae, sed superciliis rufis et dorsi colore 

 dilutiore facile distinguenda. 



344. Propasser Blythi. 



Biddulph, Ibis. Vol. 6. No. 22. 1882. p. 283. pl. 9. 



Distinet from P. tkura. It has a wing averaging from 0,10 

 to 0,25 inches longer both in the male and female. The whole 

 coloration is fainter and softer, and the general ground-colour of 

 the Upper parts is dull earthy brown, unmixed with rosy, instead 

 of dark rufous brown, as in P. thura, or dark crimson-brown, as 

 in P. rhodopeplus, while the bill is finer and less Pyrrhuline. 



? has the underparts and rump tinged with pale yellowish 

 chestnut, which in P. thura are deep reddish ehestnut, and the 

 Upper parts and wings are free from any tinge of rufous. 



Hab.: Gilgit. 



345. Propasser rhodometopus. 

 Biddulph, J., Ibis 1881. No. 1. p. 156. pl. 6. 



$. Top of the head dark vinaeeous brown ; upper plumage 

 greyish brown with a vinous tinge, the feathers rather narrowly 

 dark-centred ; the forehead, a broad supercilium, and the entire 

 throat and cheeks bright silvery pink; the entire underparts and 

 rump grey with a pink sheen, paler on the rump; wings brown, 

 edged with rosy, narrowly on the primaries, very broadly on the 

 tertiaries; tail dark brown, faintly edged with rosy. 



S. Of the usual type of females of this genus; hairbrown 

 above, every feathers broadly margined with pale dingy buff: 

 underparts pale dingy bufi, each feather rather narrowly centred 

 with brown, most strongly niarked on the throat and breast, and 

 least on the abdomen and flanks. 



Wing, $ 3,45; $ 3,3 and 3,35; tail S and $ 3,5. 



Hab.: Yungi-Hissar, Yarkund. 



346. Pyrrhula kamtschatica. 



L. Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France 7. Ann. 1882 

 p. 395. 



P. coccineae simillima, sed major, colore dorsi dilutiore, fascia 

 transalari albida. 



Long, alae 94-96 (d); 90—91 (?) mm, 



Hab: Kamtschatka. 



