1844.] Synopsis of Indian Fringillidce. 947 



deep black : sinciput, mantle, and anterior third of wing, chesnut-bay, 

 passing to maronne at the bend of the wing : there is a whitish bar on the 

 wing, formed by the tips of the smaller range of coverts ; and the rest 

 of the wing, with the tail, is dusky, the feathers margined with yellowish- 

 brown. Bill black (in the breeding season) ; and legs brown. The female 

 is nearly uniform pale brown above, darker on the mantle, and hav- 

 ing the whitish bar on the wing somewhat narrower; supercilium, 

 cheeks, and under parts, dull yellowish ; and bill light brown. Length 

 five inches, or nearly so; of wing two and three-quarters, and tail two 

 inches : bill to forehead seven-sixteenths, and tarse five-eighths. From 

 Arracan, where procured by Capt. Phayre. 



4. P. pyrrhopterus ; Fringilla pyrrhoptera, Lesson, Zoologie du Voy. 

 de M. Belanger, p. 27 1 . (Non vidi.) " Size of the common Sparrow. Head 

 and neck spotless rufous-brown ; the mantle bright rufous, with black 

 central streaks to the feathers ; shoulder deep maronne, bordered by a 

 small oblique white line ; the middle wing-coverts black, edged with 

 rufous and maronne, and the rest of the wing pale ashy externally, 

 and brownish on the inner barbs of the feathers : under parts ru- 

 fous-grey, the throat reddish-grey, with a black patch commencing 

 on the lower part of the neck : bill and tarse yellowish [but the former 

 doubtless black during the breeding season as in the other species] . 

 Female grey-brown, above silky, with brown central streaks to the fea- 

 thers of the mantle ; below of a blonde-grey throughout : wings ash-grey 

 with a white ray on the shoulder, but no maronne." Described to inha- 

 bit the Coromandel coast, and especially the neighbourhood of Pondi- 

 cherry ; but the species has not been obtained by Mr. Jerdon. 



5. P. cinnamomeus ; Pyrgita cinnamomea, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, 

 p. 85, and noticed in J. A. S. XI, 108. Inhabits the Upper Provinces of 

 Hindoostan. 



6. P. montanus ; Fringilla montana, Lin. This British species is com- 

 mon in the Himalaya, and extends eastward to China and Japan : it takes 

 the place of the common Sparrow in Chusan. But a more unexpected 

 locality for this bird to inhabit, is the island of Ramree, Arracan, whence 

 fine specimens have been forwarded to the Society by Capt. Abbott. 

 This Sparrow is remarkable for the female and young resembling the 

 adult male in plumage, all being clad in a dress analogous in colouring 

 to that of the adult males only, of the other species. 



