44. CARPODACUS. 399 



g', h\ i'. 3 ad. sk. Sikhiui (Z. M.). Hume Coll. 



k'. rf ad. sk. Rungbee, Sikhim, 5500 feet, Hume Coll. 



July 5, 1871. 

 l',m',n'. J ad. ; Daijiling. Hume Coll. 



o', p', q'. 6 



imm. ; ?■', s', t\ 



u'. J ad. sk. 



3. Carpodacus rubicilla. 



Lbxia rubicilla, Giildenst. N. Coram. St. Petersb. six. p. 463, tab. 12 



(1775). 

 Caucasian Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 112 (1783). 

 Coccothraustes caucasicus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 13 



(1811). 

 Pyrrkula caucasica, Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. 40 (1840). 

 Strobilophaga caucasica, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 387 (1844). 

 Carpodacus rubicilla, Bp. Consp. i. p. 532 (1850, pt.) ; Gould, B. Asia, 



v. pi. 25 (1852. pt.) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 101, no. 7514 (1870) ; 



Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 69, pi. 193 (1878) ; Bogd. B. Cauc. p. 68 



(1879); Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 10; Radde, Orn. Cauc. p. 165, 



pi. vii. (1884). 

 Corythus rubicilla, Bogd. B. Cauc. p. 68 (1879). 



Adult male (N. Caucasus). General colour above dark crimson, 

 the feathers of the upper surface being dull ashy edged with crimson, 

 the latter being the prevailing colour ; rump deep rosy ; lesser and 

 median coverts like the back ; greater coverts, bastard-wing, and 

 primary-coverts blackish brown, edged with crimson and fringed with 

 ashy whitish at the tips : quills blackish brown, edged with crimson, 

 the secondaries with pale ashy brown tinged with rosy, all the 

 quills fringed with white at the ends ; upper tail-coverts dusky 

 brown, broadly edged with crimson and minutely tipped with white ; 

 tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with dull rosy, with a narrow 

 whitish fringe at the tip ; crown of head dark crimson, minutely 

 spotted with pearly grey ; lores and feathers below the eye deep 

 velvety crimson, as well as on the fore part of the cheeks ; ear- 

 coverts crimson washed with pearly grey, with a few distinct spots 

 of the latter colour ; cheeks and under surface of body deep crimson, 

 becoming more rosy on the abdomen ; throat minutely spotted with 

 pearly grey, the spots larger on the fore neck and breast ; sides of 

 body and flanks paler crimson, with longitudinal pearly-grey centres ; 

 thighs ashy brown ; under tail-coverts rosy, the long ones ashy 

 brown washed with rosy and centred with dusky brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, edged with crimson ; quills below 

 dusky, reddish ashy along the inner edge. Total length S inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 4*5, tail 3'65, tarsus - 9. (Mus.H. Seebohm.) 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 pale ashy brown, the feathers mesially streaked with black, the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts more decidedly grey and 

 less distinctly mottled with dusky centres ; lesser wing-coverts like 

 the back ; median and greater coverts dusky brown, edged with 

 ashy brown, the greater coverts whitish towards the ends, the 



