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Fringillinjs. 

 Genus Propasser, 



Bill Passerine, with the culmen and gonys more or less curved or 

 straight, and the tip distinctly notched ; wings short, first quill less 

 than three next, and longest ; tail forked ; legs and feet ambulant ; 

 tarse longer than mid-toe ; toes compressed, laterals equal, central 

 long, hind least ; nails simple. Types, rhodochroa and rhodopepla. 



We have in the northern region chiefly two species of true Bull- 

 finch or Erythrocephala, Gould, and Nipalensis, mihi, to which we 

 must add a third species, styled epauletta by me, but which deviates 

 too much from the typical form to remain under Pyrrhula ; I separate 

 it as a new type, by the name of 



Pyrrhoplectes. 



Bill Pyrrhuline, but longer and less tumid, with the upper mandi* 

 ble subterminally, and the lower subcentrally notched; the gape 

 angulated ; wings shorter and more gradate than in Pyrrhula, with 

 the fourth quill commonly longest ; tail even or divaricated, not 

 forked ; legs and feet slenderer, longer, and more suited to action on 

 the ground than in Pyrrhula. Type, Pyrrhula epauletta, As. Trans, 

 vol. xix. 



Propyrrhula Ruheculoides , mihi. — Above, together with the lower 

 breast, belly and vent, smoky brown ; face as far back as the eye, 

 chin, throat and breast, bright red, of a sanguineous scarlet hue ; 

 bill dusky horn, paler below ; legs dusky. Female fulvous, below 

 with large central dashes of dusky brown, and the croup the same. 



I shall conclude this paper with the description of a new and 

 splendid species of Buzzard, peculiar to the Cachar and Tibet. 



Falconid^. 

 buteonin^. 

 Genus Buteo ? 



Buteo leucocephalus, mihi. — General structure Buteonine, but the 

 tarse two-thirds plumed to the front, and the nude part reticulate, 

 not scutellate ; acropodia half reticulate and half scutellate ; colour 

 medial brown, with the head and neck more or less perfectly albescent ; 

 chin to breast darker, and breast again paled crescent-wise ; tail with 

 frequent pale buff bars ; bill blue ; its tips and the talons black ; legs 

 and cere greenish yellow ; iris hoary ; size extremely large. Length, 

 25J inches (foem.) by 58j in expanse of wing ; closed wing, 17| ; 

 bill to gape, 2 ; tail, 11^; tarse (to sole), Sf ; central toe and nail, 

 2| ; hind, If, Weight 3^ lbs. Caught beyond the snows in Tibet. 



Another species, with the tarse considerably plumed, leads to this 

 bird from the Moor Buzzards. This second species has the general 

 form and characters of the moor buzzard, but is distinguished at 

 once by half the tarse being plumed ; the tarsi likewise are shorter, 

 and so are the toes ; but the tarse is scutellate before and behind, as 

 in that species and the rest of the Buzzards. There is no sign of 



