48 FEINGILLLD^!. 



J. A. S. Beny. xiii. p. 950 (1844) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 358 (1844) ; 



id. Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal Coll. Hodqs. p. 105 (1846) ; Blyth, 



Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 125 (1849) ; Gray, Hand-l, B. ii. p. 88, 



no. 7292 (1870) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 241 ; Salv. Cat. StricM. 



Coll. p. 212 (1882). _ 

 Ooccothraustes speculigerus, Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. St. Petersb. ix. 



p. 11 (1842) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873). 

 Hesperiphona speculigera, Bp. Consp. i. p. 506 (1850). 

 Loxia albispecularis (of dealers), teste Bp. I. c. (cf. also Salvin, Cat. 



StricM. Coll. p. 212). 

 Mycerobas carneipes, Gould, B. Asia, vol. v. pi. 21 (1851) ; Horsf. §■ 



' 'Moore, Cat. Birds E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 462 (1856) ; Jerd. B. In'd. ii. 



p. 387 (1863) ; Prjevalski, in Roicley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 296 (1877) ; 



Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1879, p. 448, 1880, p. 66 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 



1881, p. 81 ; Scully, t. c. p. 577. 

 Pycnorkarnphus carneipes, Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 108 (1879). 



Adult male. General colour above sooty black ; the lower back 

 and rump olive-yellow ; wing-coverts black, the greater coverts 

 with a spot of olive-yellow at the end of the ouier web ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts black ; qtiills black, the primaries edged 

 with ashy grey and white at the base of the outer web, forming a 

 large speculum ; the inner secondaries with a spot of olive-yellow 

 at the end of the outer web, tinged with ashy ; upper tail-coverts 

 black, fringed at the tips with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers black ; 

 crown of head, sides of face, throat, and breast sooty black like the 

 back ; abdomen, sides of body, and flanks olive-yellow ; thighs dark 

 ashy grey; under tail- coverts olive-yellow : under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries ash-grey, slightly fringed with olive-yellow ; quills 

 below black, ashy along the inner edge : " upper mandible brownish, 

 the lower one whitish horn-colour ; legs pale fleshy brown ; iris 

 hair-brown " {Wardlaw Ramsay). Total length 8 - 5 inches, culmen 

 - 85, wing 4-65, tail 3-75, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dark slaty grey, the feathers of the back slightly mottled with dusky 

 centres ; lower back and rump olive-yellow ; lesser and median 

 coverts black, edged with ashy olive, yellower on the latter ; greater 

 coverts black, edged with olive-yellow, the inner ones broadly tipped 

 with the latter colour ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, 

 fringed with ashy ; quills blackish, edged with olive-yellow, the 

 inner secondaries with a spot of olive-yellow washed with ashy at 

 the end of the outer web ; the primaries with white bases to the 

 outer web, forming a large alar speculum ; upper tail-coverts dark 

 olive-yellow, with blackish shaft-streaks ; tail-feathers black, edged 

 with olive-yellow : crown of head like the back ; lores and a slight 

 streak over the eye ashy, with whitish shaft-streaks : eyelid whitish ; 

 ear-coverts and cheeks blackish, streaked with wbite shaft-lines, 

 very distinct below the eye; the cheeks greyer, blacker on the 

 malar line ; throat and under surface of body dark slaty grey, with 

 a few whitish shaft-lines on the throat and fore neck ; abdomen 

 paler asby ; flanks olive-yellow : thighs ashy grey : under tail- 

 coverts olive-yellow, with ashy bases ; under wing-coverts and axil- 



