. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 258 FRINGILLID-ffi, Frino-illauda, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844) M. nemorieola. Pyrgilauda, J. Verr. N. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull. p. 40 (1870) M. davidiana. Hypolia, Ridgiv. Bull. Geol. Surv. i. p. 67, note (1875) M. arctoa. Onychospiza, Prjevalski, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 290 (1877) ' M. mandellii. Plectrofringilla, Boyd. B. Cam. p. 67 (1879) M. r V- Head of Montifringilla griscinucha. Range. Mountains of Southern Europe and of Central and North- eastern Asia, including also the Himalayas and the mountains of


. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 258 FRINGILLID-ffi, Frino-illauda, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844) M. nemorieola. Pyrgilauda, J. Verr. N. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull. p. 40 (1870) M. davidiana. Hypolia, Ridgiv. Bull. Geol. Surv. i. p. 67, note (1875) M. arctoa. Onychospiza, Prjevalski, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 290 (1877) ' M. mandellii. Plectrofringilla, Boyd. B. Cam. p. 67 (1879) M. r V- Head of Montifringilla griscinucha. Range. Mountains of Southern Europe and of Central and North- eastern Asia, including also the Himalayas and the mountains of Thibet. Western North America from Alaska and the neighbouring islands to Colorado and New Mexico. Key to the Species. a. Outer tail-feather entirely or for the most part white. a'. Lores ashy or brown, not forming a black line through the eye. a". Throat black ; bill black. a'". Head and neck ashy grey, contrasting with the brown back; lower and median coverts white nivalis sestiv., p. 260. I)'". Head and neck uniform brown alpicola sestiv., p. 261:. b". Throat white, or with concealed blackish bases (winter plumage, when the bill is yellow). c'". Head ashy grey; back brown nivalis hiem., p. 260. d'". Head brown like the back alpicola hiem., p. 261. ai. Lesser and median wing-coverts white. bK Lesser and median wing-coverts brown, the latter with whitish tips sometimes adamsi, p. 261. b'. Lores black, forming a mask in front of the eye. c". Throat white. e'". No rufous on the sides of the neck ; outer tail-feather entirely white ; no black moustachial streak mandellii, p. 262. f". Sides of neck rufous; outer tail-feather with a broad band of brown at the tip; a black moustachial streak ruficoUis, p. 263. d". Throat black. g'". Black of throat not extending to the fore neck, forehead white, with a black streak in the centre blanfordi, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may hav


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