36. ERYTHROSPIZA. 287 



2. Erythrospiza mongolica. 



Carpodacus niODgolicus, Sioinh. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 447, 1871, p. 480 ; 



Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 56. 

 Pyrrhula incarnata (Severtz. MSS.) ; Bode, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 480. 

 Erythrospiza mongolica, David, A'. Arch. Mux. vii. Bull. p. 10 



(1871) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 303 (1877) ; David df 



Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 349, pi. 97 (1877); Hume, Str. F. 1880, 



p. 347, note ; Barnes, t. c. p. 457 ; Honwyer §■ Tancre, MT. Orn. 



Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 93 (1883). 

 Erythrospiza incarnata, Severtz. Turlest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 117 (1873) ; 



id. Str. F. 1875, p. 424 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 245 ; Scully, Str. 



F. 1876, p. 169; Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 30 (1877). 

 Bucanetes mongolicus, Menzbier, Ibis, 1885, p. 353. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with darker brown 

 centres to the feathers of the mantle ; lower back rather darker 

 brown ; rump rosy ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median 

 coverts dark brown, externally ashy brown and tipped with ochreous 

 buff ; greater coverts blackish, externally ashy grey, edged with 

 bright rose-colour ; bastard-wing blackish, edged with ashy white ; 

 primary-coverts dark brown, edged with whity brown ; quills dark 

 brown, tipped with whity brown, the secondaries more broadly ; 

 first primary edged with whity brown, the rest with pale rosy ; the 

 secondaries broadly whity brown towards their base ; upper tail- 

 coverts pale ashy brown, the longer ones darker brown ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, edged with whity brown, the outer ones conspicuously 

 for their entire length ; crown of head brown like the back, with a 

 faint tinge of rosy over the eye ; lores ashy with a rosy tinge ; 

 eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts and sides of neck pale earthy brown ; 

 cheeks and under surfaee of body pale rosy ; the breast and abdomen 

 pale ochreous buff; sides of body and flanks pale ochreous brown, 

 washed with rosy ; thighs and under tail-coverts ochreous white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ochreous buff, washed with 

 rosy, especially near the edge of the wing ; quills below ashy brown, 

 the inner edge ashy fulvous. Total length 5 - 5 inches, culmen 0*4, 

 wing 3 - 5, tail 2*1, tarsus 0'65. 



Adult female. Not so brightly coloured as the male, and having 

 much less rose-colour on the wings and under surface of the body. 

 Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 3'5, tail 2*1, tarsus 0'65. 



The adult male in winter plumage is not nearly so brightly 

 coloured as in summer, and is more uniform on the back ; the 

 whitish bases to the greater coverts show with more precision and 

 form with the light markings on the secondaries two conspicuous 

 wing-patches ; the rosy tinge on the wings and under surface of the 

 body is much more subdued. 



Hah. Erom Northern China and Mongolia to Turkestan, and 

 Central Asia generally, reaching to Afghanistan and Gilgit. 



a. Ad. sk. [Central Asia.] Gould Coll. 



b. 3 ad. sk. Saisan, Turkestan, May 30. Dr. 0. Einsch [C], 



c. d. 2 ad.sk. Kbokand, Oct. 4 (Dr.'Severtzof). Gould Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Kashgar (Dr. Belletc), India Museum. 



