. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 472 ,se. With white on the outer tail-feather G8. Junco, p. 646. k'". First primary about equal to secondaries; head 95. Schistospiza, p. 806. h". Wings reaching1 nearly to the end [p. 572. of the tail, falling short by less j 57. Plectrophenax, than the length of the tarsus . | 59. Rhyncophanes, [p. 589. B. Hind claw longer than the hind toe .... 58. Calcaeius, p. 579. 51. UROCYNCHRAMUS. Type. Urocynchramus, Prjevahki, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 309 (1877) U. Bill of Urocynchramus pylzowi. Range.


. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 472 ,se. With white on the outer tail-feather G8. Junco, p. 646. k'". First primary about equal to secondaries; head 95. Schistospiza, p. 806. h". Wings reaching1 nearly to the end [p. 572. of the tail, falling short by less j 57. Plectrophenax, than the length of the tarsus . | 59. Rhyncophanes, [p. 589. B. Hind claw longer than the hind toe .... 58. Calcaeius, p. 579. 51. UROCYNCHRAMUS. Type. Urocynchramus, Prjevahki, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 309 (1877) U. Bill of Urocynchramus pylzowi. Range. Western China. 1. Urocynchramus pylzowi. Urocynchramus pylzowi, Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 309, pl.'vii. (1877); 'Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 32 (1879). Adult male. General colour above sandy brown, the feathers centred with black ; lesser wing-coverts reddish brown ; median coverts black, edged broadly with reddish brown ; greater coverts and bastard-wing black, edged with sandy buff, paler at the ends; primary-coverts dusky brown, fringed with reddish brown ; quills blackish brown, edged with whity brown, the inner secondaries with reddish brown ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, broadly edged with whity brown, the four outer feathers rosy, tipped with white, the third feather with an oblique brown mark near the end of the inner web, larger on the fourth feather; crown of the head like the back, and similarly streaked ; nape and hind neck rather paler and more fulvescent; lores and a narrow eyebrow rosy, or ashy with a rosy tinge, as also the feathers round the eye and sides of face; ear-coverts ashy, tinged with rosy, browner on the upper edge; checks and under surface of body pale rosy, the throat and breast washed with hoary whitish edges to the feathers ; abdomen whitish, with a rosy tinge; sides of body and flanks pale brown, streaked with black centres to the feathers; thighs ashy ochreous ; under tail-coverts rosy ; under wing-coverts a


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