400 FRINGILLID^. 



median ones with blackish shaft-lines ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with whity brown, the 

 secondaries with whitish ; tail-feathers blackish brown, narrowly 

 edged with whity brown, the outer feathers margined with white ; 

 crown of head like the back, but a little more distinctly striped ; 

 lores dull ashy ; ear-coverts and cheeks like the head, and similarly 

 streaked ; throat and under surface of body ashy whitish, with a 

 faint tinge of ochre ; the throat, fore neck, and breast distinctly 

 striped with blackish-brown centres to the feathers, these stripes 

 becoming narrower on the abdomen, sides of body, and flanks, the 

 latter being more distinctly ashy grey ; thighs ashy white ; under 

 tail-coverts ashy white, with very broad blackish centres ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries pale sandy buff, the former with 

 blackish centres to the feathers ; quills below dusky, ashy along the 

 inner edge. Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 4-35, tail 

 3-35, tarsus 0-8. (Mus. H. Seebohm.) 

 Bab. Caucasus. 



4. Carpodacus severtzovi. 



Carpodacus rubicilla (tree Guldenst.), Bp. 8f Schl. Monogr. Loaiens, 

 p. 23, pi. 26 (1852) ; Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 25 (1852, pt.) ; Pelz. 

 Ibis, 1868, p. 318; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Bume 

 8,- Benders. Lahore to York. p. 258 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 245 ; Scully, Str. F. 1876, p. 169 ; Blanf. t. c. p. 485 ; Tacz. 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 182 ( 1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orti. Misc. 

 i. p. 298 (1876) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. i08 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 82 ; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 81 ; Menzbier, Ibis, 1885, p. 353. 



Pyrrhula (Carpodacus J rubicilla, Middend. Beis. Sibir., Zool. p. 149 

 (1851) ; Badde, Beis. Sibir., Yog. p. 185 (1863). 



Propasser rubicillus, Horsf. $ Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. 

 p. 457 (1856). 



Carpodacus severtzovi, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 354. 



Adult male. General colour above pale ashy brown with a rosy gloss, 

 with very faintly indicated dusky shaft-lines ; rump pale rose-colour, 

 with a faintly marked subterminal spot of ashy rose-colour ; upper tail- 

 coverts similar, but with ashy bases ; lesser and median coverts ashy 

 brown edged with rosy ; greater coverts pale ashy, with light rose- 

 coloured margins ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills brown, 

 fringed with pale rosy, the tips of the feathers edged with ashy 

 whitish ; tail-feathers dusky, edged with dull rosy ; crown of head 

 rosy crimson, mottled with subterminal spots of pearly white ; the 

 occiput and nape uniform, like the hind neck and back ; lores and 

 feathers round the eye dusky crimson ; ear-coverts pale rose-colour ; 

 cheeks, throat, and under surface of body crimson, with subterminal 

 spots of pearly white ; the breast and abdomen paler and more rosy, 

 the pearly-white spots gradually disappearing on the lower parts, 

 the feathers of which are ashy, margined with rosy ; sides of body 

 and flanks ashy brown, washed with rosy ; thighs ashy ; under tail- 

 coverts pale rose-colour ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale 



