232 feingilud^;. 



blackish ; the throat and fore neck are ashy brown, washed with 

 yellow and thickly spotted with blackish brown. 



The older males seem to have the throat entirely yellow without 

 spots. 



Hob. South Africa. 



a. Ad. st. Cape Colony. Dr. Krauss [C ] 



b Ad. at. Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [C.J. 



c. [tfad.lsk. Cape Colony. Purchased. 



d. \6 ad.] sk. Cape Colony. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 e r 9 ad.] sk. Cape Colony. J- Gould, Ksq. 



f [ 9 ad. 1 sk. Cape Colony (E. L. Layard). Sharpe Coll. 



y. <3 ad. sk. Cape Town, April 14, I860 Sharpe Coll. 



(C. J. Andersson). 



ft. [<j> juv.] sk. George, Knysna (H. Atmore). Sharpe Coll. 



28. CALLACANTHIS. Type 



Callacanthis, Reichenb. Syst. Av. tab. lxxviii. fig. 12 



(1850) 



? C. burtoni. 



Burtonia, Bp. MSS., teste Bp. Consp. i. p. 507 (1850) . . C. burtoni. 

 Range. Himalaya Mountains. 



1. Callacanthis burtoni. 



Carduelis burtoni, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 90. 



Fringilla erythrophrvs, Blyth, J. A. S. Being, xv. p. 38 (1840). 



Fringilla burtoni, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 371 (1849) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. As. Sac. p. 337 (1849) ; Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 16 (1850) ; 



Tytler, Ibis, 1868, p. 201 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 80, no. 7174 



(1870). 

 Callacanthis burtoni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 507 (1850) ; Blyth, Ibis, 18C>7, 



pp. 45, 184; Pelz. Ibis, 1868, p. 318; Brooks, Str. F. 1876, 



p. 255 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 108 ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. 



p.' 208 (1882). 

 Burtonia erythrophrys, Bp. MS., teste Bp. I. c. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with a wash of rose- 

 colour, the rump paler and more cinnamon with a rosy wash ; sca- 

 pulars like the back ; lesser and median coverts black, with a small 

 tip of rose-colour ; greater coverts black, with a largo white spot at 

 the end tinged with rose ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black, 

 tipped with white, the latter very broadly and forming a speculum ; 

 quills black, the primaries with a white longitudinal mark at the 

 end of the outer web, the secondaries tipped with a white spot, the 

 innermost having this white spot tinged with rose like the greater 

 coverts ; upper tail-coverts cinnamon-brown ; tail-feathers black, 

 tipped with a white spot, increasing in extent towards the outer 

 ones, the two outermost having a large wedge-shaped mark of 

 white; crown of head and nape black, the forehead, lores, and eye- 

 brow, as well as the feathers round the eye, pale crimson ; ear-coverts 

 and cheeks black, with whitish shaft-lines ; under surface of body 



