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The male measures: Wing, 120; tail, 68; ciilmen, 23.5 mm. The 

 female: Wing, 118; tail, 63 ; culmen, 22 mm. Six males from Szechwan 

 and Yunnan: Wing,126-131 (128.3) ;tail, 68.5-72 (70) ;culmen, 22-25.5 

 (23.5) mm. Five females from the same region: Wing, 121-128.5 

 (125.6) tail, 68-71 (68); culmen, 21.5-24 (23) mm. 



The only specimen I have examined from India is a male without 

 definite locality. It is a very old skin; brownish black above and on 

 the throat and rather pale yellow on the breast and belly. It is 

 unsuitable for comparison. The wing measures 128 mm. 



De Schauensee ^^ took a male out of a party of four on Doi Sutep, 

 5,500 feet, March 1. He also found his specimen to be smaller and to 

 differ somewhat from Szechwan examples and believes it probably 

 represents a different form, in which he is most hkely right. The 

 wdng of his male measured only 118 mm. The wings of two f empales 

 collected in Laos by the Kelly-Roosevelt Expedition are also small, 

 118 and 120 mm.^^ 



Deignan ^^ later found it on Doi Sutep near the summit on May 12 

 and Jime 23, 1935, and took a male February 2, 1936. This would 

 seem to make it a resident and not merely a whiter visitor. 



The species ranges in the Himalayas from Afghanistan to eastern 

 Assam and northern Burma and north to the mountains of western 

 Yunnan and Szechwan; south to northern Siam and northern Laos. 



CARPODACUS MURATI Delacoor 



Carpodacics erythrinus murati Delacour, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. vol. 47, p. 20, 

 1926 (Nong-het, Laos). 



One immature male, Doi Angka, 4,000 feet, December 3, 1928; one 

 adult male, Kao Pae Pan Nam, Pasak Valley, February 18, 1934. 



The adult male has been compared with an adult male from Yunnan 

 taken in September. It is deeper in color both above and below but 

 is assuming the spring breeding dress, while the Yunnan male is in 

 unworn fall plumage. This species is entirely of a different red from 

 C. e. roseatus, more pinkish, the pileum near acajou red, not spectrum 

 red. The male measures: Wing, 84; tail, 55; culmen, 11.5 mm. Of 

 the immature male I am not so certain. It is lighter above than im- 

 mature males of C. e. roseatus of about the same age, and probably 

 belongs here. 



The species probably breeds in Tibet and migrates through Yunnan 

 to the mountains of Tonkin, Laos, and northern Siam to winter. 



It has not been recorded from Siam before, unless some of the rec- 

 ords of C. e. roseatus really belong here. 



" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, pp. 4, 236, 1934. 

 M Field Mus. Nat. Hist., zool. ser., vol. 18, no. 3, p. 118, 1931. 

 »' Jonrn. Slam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl.. vol. 10, p. 127, 1938. 



