THE BIRDS OF NORTHERN THAILAND 565 



Mycerobas melanoxanthus, Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 533 (Doi 

 Hua Mot). 



The grosbeak of Thailand has until now been found only on Doi 

 Suthep and Doi Hua Mot ; at the former locality it has been seen at 

 5,300 and 5,500 feet. It is a permanent resident and may be expected 

 to occur also on other mountains of the northwestern provinces. 



On Doi Suthep it was noted in small bands containing individuals 

 of both sexes, both in the pines and in berry-bearing trees at the edge 

 of adjacent evergreen. The song of the male, which I heard in May, 

 was a soft, whistled phew — phew-pheiu-phew {-phew) , with the first 

 note stressed. 



An almost adult male had the irides dark brown; the maxilla 

 slaty; the mandible plumbeous; the feet and toes plumbeous; the 

 claws dark brown. 



The old male has the entire head and neck (to the upper breast) 

 and all the remaining upperparts deep slaty; the inner primaries 

 white at the base and outwardly very narrowly edged with white near 

 the tip, the inner greater upper coverts and the inner secondaries 

 with a large, apical yellowish-white spot on the outer web; the 

 remaining underparts lemon-chrome ; the feathers of the thighs mixed 

 black and yellowish white. The adult female has the upperparts 

 ^olivaceous-slaty, the feathers of the head, nape, and mantle with 

 yellow or yellowish-white bases and edgings to give a strongly 

 streaked appearance; the wings as in the male; a broad slaty streak 

 from the base of the bill, through the eye, to the shoulder, edged 

 above and below by yellow ; the entire underparts yellow, almost every 

 feather (except those of the throat and the under tail coverts) with 

 a bold black guttate spot. 



CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS ROSEATUS (Blyth) 



Indian Common Rosefinch 



Pyrrhula roseata "Tickell" Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 11, 1842, p. 



461 (Calcutta, Bengal). 

 Carpodacus erythrinus, Gyldenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 170 



(listed). 

 Carpodacus erythrinus roseatus, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 457 (Khun Tan). — 



de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 560 (Chiang 



Saen) ; 1934, p. 236 (Doi Chiang Dao). 

 Carpodacus murati, Riley, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 172, 1938, p. 534 (Doi Ang Ka). 



The rosefinch, recorded from Doi Ang Ka, Doi Chiang Dao, Khun 

 Tan, Doi Langka, Doi Nang Kaeo, Ban Pang An, Pang Makham 

 Phong, Ban Muang Sum, Chiang Saen, and Phu Kha, seems to be 

 merely a winter visitor to our provinces; the extreme dates shown 

 by the series before me are December 3 (1928) on Doi Ang Ka and 



