44. CARPODACUS. 407 



Adult female. Not distinguishable from the female of 0. grandis. 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 3 - 4, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-95. 

 Hah. Altai Mountains to Turkestan and Yarkand. 



a. J ad. sk. Yarkand. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.l. 



b. c? ad. sk. Near "W ernoi, Alatau dis- Dr. SevertzofF [0.]. 



trict, March 5. 



c.cfad.sk. Near Wernoi, Oct. 8. Dr. Severtzoff [C.J. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Near Wernoi, June 6. Dr. Severtzoff | C.I. 



e. j ad.sk. Alatau Mountains, Nov. Dr. Severtzoff[C.J. 



f. <$; ff, k.% ad. sk. Kashgar {Dr. Bellew). India Museum. 



11. Carpodacus roseus. 



Fringilla rosea, Pall. Rets. Muss. Reichs, iii. p. 699 (1776). 



Passer roseus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 23 (1811). 



Pyrrkula rosea, Temm. Man. dOrn. i. p. 335 (1820) ; Naum. Vog. 

 Deutschl. iv. pi. 113. fig. 3 (1824); Werner, Atlas, Insectivoret, 

 pi. 32 (1827) ; Bree, B. Eur. ii. pi. to p. 76 (1864). 



Carpodacus roseus, Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 161 (1829); Gray, Gen. 

 B. ii. p. 384 (1844); Bp. $ Schl. Monogr. Loxiens, p. 18, "pis. 19, 

 20 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 533(1850) ; Radde, Reis. Sibir. p. 186 

 (1863) ; Dec/l. # Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 257 ( 1867) ; Di/bowski, 

 J. f. 0. 1868, p. 335 ; Gray, Hand-l, B. ii. p. 102, no. 7522 (1870) ; 

 Fritsch, Vog. Eur. p. 258, tab. 22. figs. 5, 6 (1870) ; Tacz. J f. O. 

 1873, p. 93, L--74, p. 336 ; Swinh. Ibis, 1875, p. 121 : Cordeaux, 

 t. c. p. 183 ; Swinh. Ibis, 1877, p. 145 ; Seebohm, t. c. p. 165 ; Tacz. 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 181 (1876) ; Blakist. $ Pn/er, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 245 ; Gould, B. Asia. v. pi. 33 (1879) ; Blakist. > Fryer, 

 B. Japan, p. 175 (1882) ; Jouy, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mm. vi. p. 294 

 (18S3) ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, p. 18 (1884). 



Erythrospiza rosea, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 34 (1838) ; 

 Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 207. 



Pyrrhula (Carpodacus) rojea, Schrotk, Reis. Amurl. p. 295 (1859). 



Uragus sibiricus (nee Pall.), Swinh. Ibis, 1876, p. 333 (lapsu). 



Propasser roseus, David fy Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 352 (1878). 



Adult male. General colour above rosy, the mantle and upper back 

 rather more ashy, broadly streaked with black centres to the feathers ; 

 rump and lower back uniform rich rose-colour ; lesser wing-coverts 

 deep crimson ; median and greater coverts dusky brown, edged with 

 rosy and tipped with rosy white, forming a double wing-bar ; bas- 

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

 rosy, the inner secondaries with ashy brown, white towards the end 

 of the outer web, and resembling the inner greater coverts ; upper 

 tail-coverts deep rosy, centred with broad blackish streaks; tail- 

 feathers blackish brown, edged with rosy ; crown of head pale rosy ; 

 the forehead and sinciput glossy pearly white, forming a frontal 

 band ; lores and feathers round the eye dark crimson ; ear-coverts 

 and sides of face deep rose-colour ; the fore part of the cheeks 

 minutely spotted with pearly white ; throat and malar line spangled 

 with pearly-white spots, extending backwards towards the sides of 

 the neck ; fore neck and remainder of under surface deep rose-colour, 



