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33. RHODOPECHYS. T 



Type. 



Rhodopechys, Cab. Mus. Hem. Tb. i. p. 157, note (1850) R. sanguinea. 



Head of Rhodopechys sanguinea. 



Range. From Palestine to Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus, 

 through Persia to Turkestan and Yarkand. 



1. Rhodopechys sanguinea. 



Fririgilla sanguinea, Gould, P. 'A. S. 1837, p. 127; Dickson $ Ross, 



P.Z. S. 1830, p. 121. 

 Erythro.spiza phcenicoptera, Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. 



p. 34 (1838) ; id.$ Schl. Monogr, Lo.viens, p. 27, pis. 30, 31 (1850) ; 



Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 535 (1858). 

 Carpodacus phoenicopterus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 384 (1844) ; Trislr. 



Ibis, 1868, p. 208. 

 FringiUa rhodoptera, Liekt. MSS. in Mus. BeroJ. 

 Carpodacus rhodopterus, Licht. Nomencl. Ac. Berol. p. 48 (1854). 

 Rhodopechys sanguineus, Cab. Mus. Hi in Tb. i. p. 157, note (1850); 



Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 124 ; Horsf. <f Moore, Cat. B. 



E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 460 (1856) ; Loche, Expl. Set. Alger., Ois. i. 



p. 163 (1867) ; Goidd, B. Asia, v. pi. 28 (1877). 

 FringiUa coccothraustes sanguinea, Bree, B. Eur. iii. p. 95 (1864). 

 Erytbrospiza rhodoptera, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 655 



(1870) ; Radde, Orn. Cauc. p. 167 (1884). 

 Carpodacus sanguineus, Gray, Hand-l.B. ii. p. 101, no. 7528 (1870). 

 Erythiospiza sanguinea, Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 252 (1876); 



Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 91, 'pi. 197 (1876); Hume, £>tr. E. 1879, 



p. 108 ; Tristr. Faun. 8, Flor. Palest, p. 70 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above chocolate-brown, mottled with 

 subtcrminal blackish marks on the feathers of the mantle and upper 

 back ; lower back lighter and more sandy brown ; rump rosy ; upper 

 tail-coverts also rosy, the long ones black, edged with rosy ; lesser 

 wing-coverts sandy brown washed with rosy : median and greater 

 coverts brown, edged with rosy ; the latter series internally black ; 

 bastard-wing black, edged with brown, tinged with rosy ; primary- 

 coverts and quills black, edged with bright rosy, the secondaries 

 narrowly tipped with white, the inner ones externally chocolate- 

 brown ; all the quills whitish at the extreme base, concealed : centre 

 tail-feathers black, edged with rosy and white at the base, the white 

 increasing towards the outer feathers, and the black more and more 

 confined to the end of the feathers ; the outer feathers entirely- 

 white, with a black shaft ; crown of head black, forming a cap ; the 

 forehead scaly in appearance, the feathers minutely tipped with 



