386 fringilliDjE. 



43. PYRRHOPLECTES. T 



Pyrrhoplectes, Hodgs. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). P. epauletta. 

 Pyrrhuloides, Blyt'h, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 951 (1844) . P. epauletta. 



In structure apparently identical with Carpodacus, but its peculiar 

 style of plumage renders it convenient to keep it distinct from that 

 genus. 



Hab. Himalaya Mountains. 



1. Pyrrhoplectes epauletta. 



Pyrrhula? epauletta, Hodgson, Asiat. Research, xix. p. 166 (1836); 



Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 387 (1844) ; id. Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal p-es. 



Hodgs. p. 110 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 99, no. 7485 (1870). 

 Pyrrhoplectes epauletta, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 

 "pi. 303. figs. 3, 4 (nos. 462, 463), pi. 304. figs. 1, 2 (nos. 462, 463) ; 



id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 36; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 524 (1850) ; Horsf. $ Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. 



Mus. ii. p. 455 (1856) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 382 (1863) ; Hume, 



Str. F. 1879, p. 108. 

 Pyrrhuloides epauletta, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 951 (1844) ; id. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 337 (1849). 



Adult male. General colour above black ; wing-coverts and quills 

 a little more glossy black, the innermost secondaries white along the 

 inner web, forming a longitudinal streak ; tail-feathers black ; a 

 broad frontal band of black ; rest of crown and nape deep orange ; 

 lores, feathers over the eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, and under surface 

 of body black, with a little orange-brown in the centre of the abdo- 

 men ; thighs and under tail-coverts black ; axillaries orange-buff ; 

 under wing-coverts white, edged with orange-buff, the lower ones 

 entirely white ; quills dusky below, ashy along the inner web : " bill 

 black ; legs fleshy grey ; iris brown *' (B. H. Hodgson). Total 

 length 5-6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 305, tail 225, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 ruddy brown, ashy grey on the hind neck and mantle, and becoming 

 deeper rufous or chestnut on the lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts ; wing-coverts ruddy brown, the median and greater series 

 edged externally with chestnut ; bastard-wing dusky, rufescent ex- 

 ternally ; quills black, the inner secondaries externally chestnut, 

 with a longitudinal white mark along the inner web ; tail-feathers 

 blackish ; forehead ashy blackish, as well as the lores and feathers 

 around the eye and below the latter ; feathers on the hinder crown 

 blackish, edged with olive-yellow as they approach the nape, which 

 is entirely olive-yellow ; cheeks and ear-coverts dark ashy, washed 

 with olive-yellow ; sides of neck dark ashy ; under surface of body 

 chestnut, paler on the abdomen, browner on the breast and inclining 

 to brick-red on the throat ; thighs ashy grey, as also the sides of the 

 upper breast ; axillaries pale orange-buff ; under wing-coverts white, 

 edged with orange-buff; quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the 

 inner web : "soft parts as in male " (B. H. Hodgson). Total length 

 5 - 5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-1, tail 2-25. tarsus 0-7. 





