I-'RINUILLIDjE. 



A, 



y- d 5 ad. sk. Hakodadi, Japan, Feb. 2b'. 



e- cf 2 ad. sk. Japan. 



cJ ad. sk. Japan. 



5 ad. sk. Chusan (Capt. liter). 



Sternum. England. 



Sternum. England. 



Skull. England, 



ju.. Skulls. S. Germany. 



Skeleton. England. 



25. PROCARDUELIS. 



H. Whitely [C.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Zoological Society, 

 Gould Coll. 

 T. Ingall, Esq. 

 J. Ray, Esq. 

 J. Ray, Esq. 

 Dr. Giinther. 

 Purchased. 



Type. 



Procarduelis, Hod y son, in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 



(1844) P. nipalensis. 



Range. Himalaya Mountains, extending into Western China. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head and hack velvety blackish, washed with 



crimson, so that the crimson forehead and eye- 

 brow stand out in strong contrast nipalensis, p. 182. 



b. Entire upper surface pale crimson, as well as the 



sides of the face, the forehead and eyebrow not 



in strong contrast rubescens, p. 184. 



1. Procarduelis nipalensis. 



Carduelis nipalensis, Hodys. Asiatic Research, xix. p. 157 (1836). 

 Procarduelis nipalensis, Hodys. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 303. figs. 1, 2 (nos. 460, 461) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 



(1844) ; Blyih, J. A. 8. Beny. xiii. p. 954 (1844) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. 



As. Soc. p. 121 (1849) ; id. J. A. S. Beny. xxiii. p. 213 (1854) ; 



Horsf. $ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 492 (1856); Jerd. B. 



Ind. ii. p. 405 (1863) ; David, N. Arch. Mus. vii. Bull. p. 10 



(1871) ; David $ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 351 (1877) ; Hume, &tr. F. 



1879, p. 108 ; Scully, t. c. p. 336 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 488. 

 Linota saturata, Blyih, J. A. 8. Beny. xi. p. 193 (1842), xii. p. 985 



(1843). 

 Linota fusca, Blyih, J. A. S. Beny. xi. p. 193 (1842). 

 Fringilla nepalensis, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 371 (1849) ; id. 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 81, no. 7175 (1870). 

 Pyrrha saturata (ex Cab. MSS. in Mus. Berol.), Bp. fy Sehl. Monoyr. 



'Loxiens, p. 23, pi. 29 (1850). 

 Pyrrha nipalensis, Cab. in Ersch. u. Grueber, Enc. 1st sect. vol. 50. 



p. 216 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 529 (1850) ; Lield. Nomencl. Av. 



Berol. p. 47 (1854). 



Adult male. General colour above sooty black, washed with deep 

 vinous, the edges to the feathers being of the latter colour ; the 

 mantle rather darker, the feathers being blacker in the centre ; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the reddish edges a little more jjronounced 

 on the greater coverts ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 blackish, narrowly edged with dull vinous, more ashy on the margins 

 of the primaries, the inner secondaries more broadly edged like the 

 greater coverts ; upper tail-coverts like the rump ; tail-feathers 

 blackish brown, with dull reddish-brown margins ; crown of head 



