398 FRINGILLID^:. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 olive-yellow, strongly mottled with dusky, the bases of the feathers 

 being white, the body of the feathers dusky, and the margins olive- 

 yellow ; rump bright golden yellow ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 the edges of the median and greater coverts a little brighter yellow ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with 

 olive-yellow, a little brighter on the primaries ; upper tail-coverts 

 dusky olive, with clearer yellow edges ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 washed externally with dull olive; crown of head like the back, 

 but the yellow a little brighter ; lores and feathers round the eye 

 pale olive-yellow ; ear-coverts dusky brown, washed with olive- 

 yellow, with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks clear olive-yellow ; throat 

 ashy, washed with olive-yellow, and mottled with dusky centres to 

 the feathers ; remainder of under surface of body clear ashy, more 

 or less mottled with dusky centres to the feathers ; sides of body 

 and flanks like the breast, and slightly tinged with ashy ; thighs 

 dusky ; under tail-coverts white, tinged with olive-yellow and 

 mottled with dusky bases ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, 

 washed with olive-yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge: " bill, legs, and iris as in the male, but duller" (Hodgson). 

 Total length 6 - 5 inches, culmen O60, wing 3 - 75, tail 2-35, tarsus 



0-8. 



Young male. At first resembles the adult female, but has the 

 rump orange and an orange tinge on the head and throat ; the 

 margins of the primaries reddish. 



The scarlet dress is apparently gained by a moult, and full- 

 plumaged specimens are often found with olive-margined quills, the 

 remains of the immature dress. Newly moulted birds have the 

 colours very bright, the males being often nearly crimson ; but they 

 appear to fade from exposure, being occasionally of a pale scarlet. 



Hab. Central and Eastern Himalayas. 



a, b. cJ $ ad. sk. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



(Types of species.) 

 c, d. 6 ad. ; e, f. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



2 ad. sk. 

 g. rj juv. sk. Native Sikhim, Jan. 1877 (L. Hume Coll. 



Mandelli). 

 hi. 6 ad.; k, I, Native Sikhim, March 1875 Hume Coll. 



'm. ? ad.sk. (L. M.) 



n S ad sk Native Sikhim, April 1874 Hume Coll. 



(L. M.). 

 o. p. 6 ad. ; q. $ Sikhim, Jau. 1878 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



r-u <5 ad. sk. Sikhim, Feb. 1874-78 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



v w, x. 2 ad. sk. Sikhim,Feb. 1874-78 (L.M.). Hume Coll. 



J z cT ad sk. Sikhim, March 1874-78 Hume Coll. 



{L. M.). 



a'.b' cJad.;c'. ? Sikhim, April 1873-74 Hume Coll. 



'ad.sk. (L.M.). 



d'. $ ad. sk. Sikhim, Nov. 1873 [L. M.). Hume Coll. 



e',f. 6 $ad. sk. Sikhim, Dec. 1875 (i. M.). Hume Coll. 



