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dots) on a willow tree on the roadside near my bungalow, about 10 feet from 

 the ground. Could be seen distinctly from below. When blown the eggs look 

 a pale blue. This tallies with Major Betham's find as described by him under 

 Hume's Hawfinch." 



There is thus no doubt that the common finch of Quetta is the Erythrospiza 

 obsoleta, and for the reasons given above, is the bird which Capt. Marshall 

 thought was " Hume's Hawfinch." 



A. brief description of this bird will be found at page 223 of Vol. II of the 

 •' Fauna of British India — Birds " under the name of Rhodosjriza obsohta. It 

 will also be found referred to under the latter name at page 80 of Vol. V. 

 Part 3, of the " Transactions of the Linnean Society of London" — The 

 Zoology of the Afghan Delimitation Commission. 



Unfortunately for the residents of Quetta the scientific name of Erythrospiza 

 obsoleta is not easily remembered, and as we, who know the bird, would like to 

 have an English name for it, I think our Society cannot do better than give it 

 one, and as, according to the " Fauna of British India," " the genus Erythrospiza 

 contains the palest forms of Rose-finches, birds of the desert," I propose, it' 

 the President, Vice-President and members agree, to call it the Quetta Eose- 

 Finch or the Quetta Rose-winged Finch and number it No. 704 (a). 



J. W. NICOL GUMMING. 



Uony. Sect/,, Bal. Natural History Society. 

 Quetta, 'c,\st October 1907. 



