. Birds. Birds. FETTTGHLLAITDA. 247 According to Adams this species breeds in Laddk and Little Tibet, constructing its nest in the long dykes built by the Tartars oyer their dead. Genus PRINGILLAUDA, Hodgs., 1836. The genus FrirujiUauda resembles Montifrincfilla, but the bill is more slender and the tail is forked, the middle feathers being considerably shorter than the outer. There is moreover no white in the wings and tail except on the margins. The birds of this genus, like those of the last, are found at considerable altitudes and feed on the ground in flocks. Key to the Species. a. Wing n
. Birds. Birds. FETTTGHLLAITDA. 247 According to Adams this species breeds in Laddk and Little Tibet, constructing its nest in the long dykes built by the Tartars oyer their dead. Genus PRINGILLAUDA, Hodgs., 1836. The genus FrirujiUauda resembles Montifrincfilla, but the bill is more slender and the tail is forked, the middle feathers being considerably shorter than the outer. There is moreover no white in the wings and tail except on the margins. The birds of this genus, like those of the last, are found at considerable altitudes and feed on the ground in flocks. Key to the Species. a. Wing nearly 4 ; no rose-colour on iiunp or â wing-coverts. a'. Axillaries yellow F. nemoricokt, p. 247. b'. Axillaries pale ashy F. sordida, p. 248. b. Wing nearly 6; rump and wing-coverts suffused with rose-colour F. brandti, p. 248. 786. PringiUauda nemoricola. Eo(Jgson's MountcdnrFinch. FringiUauda nemoricola, Sodgs. As. Res. xix, p. 158 (1836) ; Horsf. if- M. Cat. ii, p. 491 (part.) ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 414 (part.); Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 66; Hume, S. F. i, p. 41; id. Cat. no. 753. Montifringilla nemoricola (Sodgs.), Blyth, Cat. p. 121 (part.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 268. The Himalayan Lark-Finch, Jerd. (part.).. Fig. 69.âHead of F. nemoricola. Coloration. Forehead, crown, nape, hind neck, back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts dark brown, with nifous margins; rump ashy grey; upper tail-coverts black, with distinct white margins ; tail brown, with narrow pale margins; median wing-coverts ashy brown, with white margins; greater coverts brown, mottled with black and tipped white ; primary-coverts tipped with dark brown and edged with ashy ; quills brown, margined with rufous, and the inner webs of the tertiaries black; a broad but indistinct super- cilium ashy white streaked with brown; sides of the head and neck rufous-brown, the cheeks and the part under the eye streaked with brown; lower plumage plain brown, the sides of the breast streaked with darker brovr
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