44. CARPODACUS. 403 



6. Carpodacus stoliczkae. 



Propasser stoliczkse, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 523 ; Severtz. Str. F. 

 1878, p. 431. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above pale ashy 

 brown, entirely uniform except on the lower back and rump, which 

 are pale rosy ; wing-coverts like the back, with a wash of pale rosy 

 near the edge of the wing ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills pale brown, externally ashy brown, whitish along the edge of 

 the primaries and tips of the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts pale 

 ashy brown, with whitish edges ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged 

 with pale ashy brown, whitish on the extreme margins ; crown of 

 head like the back, the forehead crimson, the sinciput and feathers 

 over the eye pearly white with a rosy tinge ; lores crimson ; sides of 

 face rosy ; feathers round eye crimson ; ear-coverts and cheeks rosy ; 

 throat and breast rosy, deeper on the throat ; abdomen pale ashy 

 brown ; sides of body, flanks, and thighs ashy brown ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ashy, with 

 a tinge of rosy on the edge of the wing ; quills below pale brown, 

 ashy along the inner edge. Total length 6 inches, culmen - 45, 

 wing 3 - 6, tail 2-65, tarsus - 75. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in wanting all traces of 

 crimson or rosy colour on the head and breast, the whole tone of the 

 plumage being pale sandy brown, lighter on the lower back and 

 rump as well as on the breast and abdomen ; the head and throat 

 with slightly indicated streaks of dark brown. Total length 5'8 

 inches, culmen 045, wing 3-45, tail 2 - 5, tarsus 08. 



Hab. Yarkand. 



«. $ ad. sk. Khulustan Valley, June 6, 1874 Hume Coll. 



(J. BiddulpK). 

 b. 2 ad. sk. Yarkand. ' Gould Coll. 



7. Carpodacus sinaiticus. 



Pyrrhula synoica, Temtn. PL Col. iii. pi. 375. figs. 1, 2 (1825). 

 Pyrrlmla sinaica, Rupp. Neue Wirb., Vbg. p. 101 (1835) ; id. Syst. 



" Uebers. p. 79 (1845). 

 Carpodacus sinoicus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 3S4 (1844). 

 Carpodacus sinaiticus, Bp. 8f Schl. Monoc/r. Loxiens, p. 17, pi. 18 

 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 534 (1850) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. 



(1884). 



Carpodacus uropygialis, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 48 (1854). 

 Erythrospiza githaginea (nee Licht.), Clark Kennedy, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 108. 



Adult male. General colour above pale sandy brown with a rosy 

 wash, the feathers faintly streaked with dusky shaft-lines ; rump 



2 d 2 



