344j tVil -Vi^sv. Zoological Society : — it) M. .1 .iQ 



of neck being whiter, and ashy on the front of the neck only, the 

 breast and the rest of the under-parts being uniform bright rufous- 

 brown, which colour is also prominent on the back, and especially 

 on the scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts. 



Length 6 inches ; of wing 3f ths ; tail 3 ; tarsus f ths of an inch. 



Hab. Kumaon. In Mus. East India Company. 



Emberiza castaneiceps, Gould, MSS. 

 jr Also affined to E. Cia. Crown and ear-coverts deep chestnut- 

 brown ; superciliary streak, base of upper mandible, throat, front 

 and sides of neck ashy white ; behind the ears and nape ashy j a 

 spot before the eye and streak from base of lower mandible down the 

 sides of the throat black ; back, scapulars and rump rufous-brown, 

 the two former having blackish centres to the feathers ; wings dusky 

 black, the feathers margined with rufous-brown ; tail dusky black, 

 the two centre feathers broadly margined with rufous-brown, the two 

 outer tipped obliquely with white for nearly the whole length ; breast 

 and flanks rufous-brown, and paling towards the centre of the belly ; 

 upper mandible dark-horn, lower paler. 



y Length 5|- inches ; wing 2|ths ; tail 2|ths ; tarsus f of an inch. 

 \ Hab. Kintang in China. In Mus. East India Comp., J. Gould^ 

 Esq. „ , 



Genus Propasser, Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844); 

 P. Z. S. 184.5, p. 36. 



Phcenicospiza, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiiL.p. 213 (1854). 



Propasser thura. 



Carpodacus Thura, Bonaparte et Schlegel, Monogr. des Lq;$J£^s, 

 t. 23. Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. p. 531 (male). i.^nrj t. 



Propasser rhodopepluSy part. Hodgson. 

 t: Hab. Nepal. In Mus. East India Comp. Brit. Mus., J. Gould, 

 Esq. 



This species may be distinguished from the true P. rhodopeplus, by 

 its rather smaller and a trifle more pyrrhuline bill ; the colour of 

 the male above being hair-brown, the feathers centred with blackish, 

 and the lesser range of wing-coverts only being crimson-tipped ; the 

 under-parts, rump and upper tail-coverts, cheeks, forehead, and 

 superciliary streak are pale silvery-crimson, the end of the latter and 

 the centre of the belly being pure white ; the crimson feathers of the 

 head and throat being centred also with white, and the crimson 

 colour being deepest at the base of the bill ; whereas, inP. rhodopeplus 

 the male above is dark crimson-brown, and has both ranges of 

 wing-coverts and the tertiaries pale crimson-tipped. The female of 

 P. Thura (which is now for the first time described) may be distin- 

 guished from the same sex of P. rhodopeplus by being paler above and 

 having paler centres to the feathers ; the colour of the under-parts 

 being considerably more uniform ; having also but faint centres to 

 the feathers. P. rhodopeplus is a trifle larger than P. Thura. 



The Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte has compared these specimens, 

 and his Highness also verifies their distinctness. 



