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brownish wash to the gray of the upper parts, middle pair of tail 

 feathers, throat and breast, and in having the rump i)ale brownish 

 butf like the abdomen. 



31. PYCNORHAMPHUS CARNEIPES (Hodgson), 



Female, adult, Braldu Valley, Baltistan, :yovember 30, 1891; 11,000 

 feet. ''Bill dark horn brown, blackening at tip: lower mandible pale 

 at base; irides hair brown; length, 9i inches. Shot in one of the few 

 and small jungles to be found in this desolate region." 



32. CARDUELIS CARDUELIS CANICEPS (Vigors) 



Male, adult, four specimens. Vale of Kashmir, Jane, 1891, and May, 

 1892. 

 Female, immature, Vale of Kashmir, August 12, 1891. 



■ 33. CALLACANTHIS BURTONI (Gould). 



' Male, adult, Pir Panjal range, Kashmir, August 29, 1891 ; 9,000 feet. 

 " Bill yellow ; feet light brown ; length, 7 inches." 



Female, adult, Pir Panjal range, Kashmir, August 29, 1891; 9,000 

 feet. "Bill yellow; feet brownish flesh." 



i\Iale, adult, central Kashmir, September 13, 1891; 1Q,000 feet. " Bill 

 orange yellow; feet brownish flesh. Common in the pine woods at this 

 elevation, going about in flocks of ten or a dozen. Feed mostly upon 

 the ground, i^ote resembles that of our American Goldfinch." 



Male, immature, central Kashmir, September 13, 1891 ; 10,000 feet. 



Female, adult, central Kashmir, September 13, 1891; 10,000 feet. 

 "Bill horn yellow; feet dirty tiesh color." 



The immature male in the collection differs from the adult of that 

 sex in having no trace of crimson in the plumage, and otherwise as fol- 

 lows: Top of head sepia, the feathers with concealed blackish bases,* 

 passing into wood brown on the nape and forehead; back brown 

 (between raw umber and sepia), with a tinge of burnt umber on the 

 scapulars; rump and upper tail-coverts raw umber; entire nnder i^arts 

 dark cinnamon, lighter on abdomen, and with a tinge of russet on the 

 throat ; a russet band over the eye ; lower part of cheeks, malar stripe 

 and a line on each side of the throat dull blackish. Wing as in the 

 adult, but white terminal spots on outer webs of tertials with a buify 

 edging; lesser wing-coverts brown; middle coverts with terminal bufit" 

 spots to the feathers ; tail as in the adult, with buff'y edgings to the 

 three central pairs of feathers instead of white tips. 



34. ACANTHIS CANNABINA FRINGILLIROSTRIS (Bonaparte and 



Schlegel). 



Male, adult, Shigar, Baltistan, January 24, 1892; 8,000 feet. " Upper 

 mandible pale horn brown; lower niandilde pale leaden, becoming yel- 

 lowish at gonys; irides brown; feet dark brownish flesh color; length, 

 G inches." 



