Figures. Gould, Cent. Birds Himal. Mts. pi. xxxii. ; id. Birds 

 of Asia, V. pi. 36. 



English. Red-headed Bullfinch. 



French. Le Bouvreuil a tke rouge. 



German. Bothkopfgimjjel. Dcr rothlripfige Gimpel. 



Habitat. W. Himalayas, Nepal ; rare in Sikkiiu and Bootan. 



Male. Crown of head, nape, and sides of neck rich orange-brown ; frontal band black, 

 edged with ashy-grey ; mantle, scapulars, and back ashy-grey, edged with a narrow 

 blackish band across the lower back ; rump white ; lesser and median wing-coverts ashy- 

 grey, tinged with orange-brown ; greater coverts pale ashy-grey, with a purplish basal 

 square patch on the outer webs ; primaries and coverts black, shghtly edged with 

 purple ; secondaries, upper tail-coverts, and outer edges of tail-feathers glossy steel blue, 

 transversely barred with black, inner webs and outer rectrices black ; cheeks, throat, 

 breast, sides, and axillaries dull orange-brown ; under wing-coverts, belly, and under 

 tail-coverts white ; under surface of wings, and tail, dull blackish-brown ; ' ' bill black ; 

 legs pale fleshy-brown ; iris light brown " (Jerdon) : length 5-5, wing 3'0, tail 2-6, 

 tars. 0'65, culm. 0"4. 



Female. Crown, nape, and sides of head yellowish-olive-green ; frontal band dull black, 

 edged with pale grey, which blends into the crown of the head ; hind neck, mantle, 

 scapulars, and back slaty-brown, faintly . tinged with olive ; rump white ; wings, 

 coverts, and tail as in the male, but duller ; chin brownish-black, faintly edged with 

 bufl[' ; cheeks, sides of neck, throat, and under parts pale slaty -brown, faintly tinged 

 with orange-brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts white ; axillaries, under surface of 

 wings and coverts whitish ; iris, bill, and feet as in the male. 



Young Male. Similar, but much paler, especially the under parts, which are grey, tinged 

 with orange-brown on the sides of the neck and body. 



The Red-headed Bullfinch was first made known to science by Mr. 

 N. A. Viofors, who characterized it in the ' Proceedinsrs of the Zoological 

 Society' for 1831, and figured for the first time m Mr. eTohn Gould's 

 ' Century of Birds from the Himalayan Mountains,' which was published 

 in 1832, and refigured with the female in his ' Birds of Asia' in 1853. 



From all I can gather respecting tliis very beautiful Bullfinch, it 

 appears to inliabit the higher ranges of the mountainous regions of the 

 Himalayas, Nepal, and Bootan ; and although the species does not 



