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and axillaries pale ashy fulvous, tinged with rosy ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " legs and feet and lower man- 

 dible brownish fleshy ; upper mandible and claws rather dark brown ; 

 iris pale wood-brown " (A. 0. Hume). Total length 7'3 inches, 

 culmen 0-65, wing 3-65, tail 3*1, tarsus 0-89. 



In the breeding-season the colours of the male are somewhat 

 brighter and more lilac, and there are traces of dusky blackish 

 shaft-lines on the throat and breast ; the upper surface, too, is rather 

 darker, and the head more distinctly rosy. Although the female 

 deseribed has a rosy tinge on the rump, none of the other specimens 

 show this character, and it is probably only a sign of very old birds. 



Hab. Afghanistan and Himalayas from Northern Cashmere to 

 Native Sikhim. 



10. Carpodacus rhodochlainys. 



Pyrrbula (Corythus) rhodochlamvs, Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. 



St. Petersb. 1843, p. 27. 

 Strobilophaga rhodochlamys, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 18 (1849). 

 Carpodacus rhodochlamys, Bp. fy Schl. Monugr. Loxiens, p. 22, pi. 35 



(1850, 2 ) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 101, no. 7515 (1870) ; Severtz. 



Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 245 ; Menz- 



bier, Ibis, 1885, p. 353. 

 Propasser rhodochlamys, Stoliczka, Str. F. 1875, p. 219. 

 Propasser rhodometopus, Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 156. 



Adult male. Similar to O. grandis', but differing in the forehead 

 having pearly-pink plumes like the eyebrow. Total length 7'6 

 inches, culmen Q-o5, wing 2 - 55, tail 3, tarsus 1. 



