44 



FRINGILLLD-ffi. 



Range. Throughout the Himalayas, extending into Thibet and 

 Western China. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With no alar speculum. 



a'. Crown and throat black, as also the wings 

 and tail. 



a". Thighs black icteroides <$ , p. 44. 



b". Thighs yellow affinis S , P- 46. 



b'. Crown and throat grey. 



c". Under surface from the fore neck down- 

 wards olive-yellow affinis 2 > P- 4(5. 



d". Throat and chest ashy grey; rest of under 



surface pale fawn-colour icteroides 2 > P- 44. 



b. With a white alar speculum on the primaries. 



c'. Throat and breast blackish like the head . . carneipes $ , p. 48. 

 a". Throat and breast ashy grey, streaked with 



dull white carneipes 2 > P- 48. 



1. Pycnorhamphus icteroides. 



Coccothraustes icteroides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 8 ; Gould, Cent. 



B. Himal. Mts. pi. 45 (1832); Bhjtli, J. A. .S'. Bene/, xiii. 1844, 



p. 950, cum tig. (bill) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 358 (1844) ; Hodgs. Icon. 



ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 281 (no. b29) ; id. in dray's 



Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844); Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc Nepal pres. 



Hodgs. p. 105 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mas. As. Hoc. p. 125 (1849) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 68, no. 7290 (1870) ; Salvia, Cat. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 212(1882). 

 Mycerobas icteroides, Cab. in Wiegm. Arch. f. Naburg. xiii. p. 350 



(1847). 

 Hesperiphona icteroides, Bp. Consp. i. p. 505 (1850) ; Gould, B. Asia, 



v. pi. 22* (1851); Horsf. # Moore, Cat. B. E.l. Co. Mus. ii. 



p. 462 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 385 (1863) ; Hume ^ Henderson, 



Lahore to YarJc. p. 257 (1873); C/.- ,y Marshall, Sir. F. 1873, 



p. 358 ; Wardlaio Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 66 ; C. H. T. Mars/tall, 



Ibis, 1884, p. 420. 

 Pycnorhamphus icteroides, Hume, Nests and Eyrjs Ind. B. p. 469 



(1873) ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 107. 



Adult male. General colour above yellow, the centre of the back 

 yellow, the feathers yellow on the outer web, black on the inner one ; 

 scapulars, entire wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail black ; crown of 

 head and nape, sides of head, cheeks, and throat black ; rest of 

 under surface from the lower throat yellow ; thighs black ; axillaries 

 and under wing-coverts black ; quills black below, a little browner 

 on the edge of the inner web : " bill apple-green ; legs carneous ; 

 iris reddish brown " (R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay). Total length 8 

 inches, culmen 1, wing 5, tail 3 - 2, tarsus 1*05. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 ashy grey, the head a little duller than the back ; lower back and 



* Excepting the lower figure, which is H. affinis 2 ■ 



