27. CHRTSOMITRIS. 227 



and fore neck yellow, the rest of the under surface whiter, tinged 

 with yellow : sides of the breast, sides of body, and flanks broadly 

 streaked with black ; thighs ashy ; under tail-coverts yellow, white 

 at tip and streaked with black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white, washed with yellow ; quills below dusky, whitish along the 

 the inner edge. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2*7, 

 tail 1*6, tarsus 0-5. 



Hab. Interior of Sikhim, Himalaya Mountains. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Sikhim, on the borders of Thibet, Hume Coll. (Type 



1878 (Z. Mandelli). of species.) 



b-g. <$ ad. ; h. Interior of Sikhim, Feb. 1873 Hume Coll. 



2 ad. sk. (Z. Mandelli). 



i, k. <S ad. ; I, m. Sikhim, 1872 (Z. Mandelli). Hume Coll. 



Imm. sk. 



23. Chrysomitris pinus. 



Fringilla pinus, Wih. Amer. Orn. ii. p. 133, pi. 17. fi-y. 1 (1810) ; 



Nutt. Man. p. 511 (1832); Audub. B. Amer. pi. 1»0; id. Orn. 



Biogr. ii. p. 455 (1834), v. p. 509 (1839) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 371 



(1849) ; id. Hand-l, B. ii. p. 81, no. 7182 (1870). 

 Carduelis pinus, Jard. ed. Wils. Amer. Orn. i. p. 275, pi. xvii. fig. 1 



(1832). 

 Chrysomitris pinus, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Amer. p. 33 (1838) ; 



id. Comp. p. 515 (1850) ; Baird, B. N Amer. p. 425 (1858) ; Scl. 



Cat. Amer. B. p. 124 (1862) ; Blakist. Ibis, 1802, p. G, 1863, p. 71 ; 



Scl. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 174 ; Baird, Ibis, 1867, p. 268 ; Brown, Ibis, 



1868, p. 421 ; Scl. # Salt: P. Z. S. 1869, p. 302 ; Sumichr. Mem. 



Bost. Soc. N H. i. p. 350 (1869) ; Cooper, B. Calif, p. 172 (1870) ; 



Allen, Bull. Mus. C. Zool. Cambr. iii. p. 176 (1872) ; Coues, Key 



N. Amer. B. p. 131 (1872) ; Finsch, Abhandl. nab. Ver. Bremen, iii. 



p. 60 (1872) ; Scl. §■ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 34 (1873) ; 



Coues, B. N.-West, p. 115 (1874) ; Baird, Brewer, fy Ridgw. Hist. 



N Amer. B. i. p. 480, pi. 22. fig. 16 (1874) ; Hensh. Rep. Expl. 



100)fA Ma-id. p. 246 (1875); Belding, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. 



p. 414 (1879) ; Ridgio. op. cit. iii. p. 177 (1880) ; Salv, Cat. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 213 (1882) ; id. § Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. 



p. 429 (1886) ; Coues, Key N. Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 254 (1884) ; 



Scott, Auk, i. p. 160 (1884) ; Bicknell, t. c. p. 328 ; Beckham, Auk, 



ii. n. 141 (1885). 

 Linaria pinus, Audub. B. Amer. iii. p. 125, pi. 180 (1841). 

 Chrysomitris macroptera, Du Bus, Esq. Orn. pi. 23 (ined.) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 515 (1850). 

 Spinus pinus, Stejncger, Auk, i. p. 362 (1884) ; Turner, Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. vim p. 240 ; A. O. U. Cheek-list N. Amer. B. p. 262 



(1886) ; Anthony, Auk, iii. p. 168 (1886) ; Seton, t. c. p. 323 



(1886). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above brown, 

 more ashy on the rump, which is tinged with pale yellow, the entire 

 upper surface broadly streaked with blackish centres to the feathers, 

 those on the rump being rather broadly margined with yellowish 

 white ; lesser wing-coverts brown ; median and greater coverts 

 blackish brown, tipped with white, which has a yellowish tinge on 



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