388 FRINGILLID-E. 



Hsematospiza, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 951 



(1844) C. sipahi. 



Phcenicospiza, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiii. p. 213 



(1854) C. rhodochrous. 



Range. North-eastern and Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, Palestine, 

 and Arabia, throughout N. Asia and the Indian Peninsula, especially 

 developed in the Himalayas and mountains of Western China. 

 North America generally to Mexico. 



Key to the Species. 



Males, 

 a. Sides of body and flanks perfectly uniform, 

 without dusky shaft-streaks. 

 a'. No pearly white spots on the head or 

 throat, which are uniform. 

 a". Smaller: lower back and rump decidedly 

 brighter than the hack; lower abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts decidedly paler 

 than the breast, whitish, shaded with 



rosy erythrinus, p. 393. 



b". Larger: lower back and rump perfectly 

 uniform with the back ; abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts rich crimson, like 

 the rest of the under and upper surface, sipahi, p. 397. 

 b'. Head spotted or spangled with pearly white. 

 c". Larger : throat and breast spotted with 

 white dots, the latter being surrounded 

 with broad crimson edges. 



a'". Back deep rosy rubicilla, p. 399. 



b'". Back pale sandy brown, with a faint , severf - m 

 tinge of rosy ................. rubicmo ; (1 f 402 . 



d . Smaller : no white spots on the throat ' ' ' 



and breast. 

 (•"'. No rosy bands across the wings. 

 a 4 . Back uniform ashy brown, with no 



dusky shaft-streaks stoliczkce, p. 403. 



6 4 . Back paler brown, with a rosy tinge 



and dusky shaft-lines sinaiticus, p. 403. 



d'". With two rosy bands across the 

 wing, formed by the rosy ends to the 



median and greater coverts trifasciatus, p. 404. 



b. Sides of body streaked, or always with well- 

 marked blackish shaft-lines; generally a 

 distinct eyebrow. 

 c'. Crown of head uniform, not broadly 

 streaked with dark centres to the feathers 

 [sometimes dusky shaft-lines may be 

 present, but the general aspect of the head 

 is uniform, in contrast to the colour of 

 the back]. 

 e". Breast perfectly uniform, not streaked 

 [beyond a blackish shaft-line]. 

 e'". With a conspicuous rosy or crimson 

 rump-patch, contrasting with the 

 back. 



