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FRINGILLID-E. 



with narrow blackish shaft-lines ; centre of lower breast and abdo- 

 men white ; sides of body and flanks rosy, the latter with more dis- 

 tinct blackish shaft-lines ; thighs ashy whitish ; under tail-coverts 

 whitish washed with rosy, with dusky centres ; under wiug-coverts 

 and axillaries ashy white, tinged with rose-colour, those near the 

 edge of the wing more distinctly edged with rosy ; quills below 

 dusky, ash}' along the inner edge : " bill brown, the lower mandible 

 grey ; tarsus reddish grey ; the toes brownish grey ; iris chestnut " 

 (A. David). Total length 6 inches, culmen 045, wing 3 - 5, tail 2*5, 

 tarsus 0-75. (Mus. H. Seebohm.) 



The specimen described is a male procured at Krasnoyarsk on the 

 10th of April, and now in Mr. Seebohm's collection. Another male 

 from Pekin, in Mr. Seebohm's collection, is entirely rosy on the 

 back, streaked with black on the mantle and upper back, and shows 

 none of the ashy-grey colour apparent in the specimen described. 

 The Pekin bird is probably an older individual. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown tinged with rosy, the feathers of the mantle and back 

 broadly centred with blackish brown ; lower back and rump rosy, 

 with scarcely any indications of dusky centres to the feathers ; lesser 

 wing-coverts dull vermilion ; median and greater coverts dusky 

 brown, externally margined with oehreous buff, inclining to whitish 

 at the ends; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky brown, edged 

 with paler brown ; quills dusky brown, margined with oehreous 

 buff, paler on the secondaries, the inner secondaries more broadly 

 edged, the innermost having the outer web oehreous buff; upper 

 tail-coverts brown tinged with rosy, w T ith blackish centres ; tail- 

 feathers dusky brown, edged with oehreous brown, slightly tinged 

 with rosy ; crown of head brown, washed w r ith rosy and streaked 

 with dusky brown, with a slight pearly gloss on the frontal feathers ; 

 lores oehreous buff; ear-coverts pale brown, streaked with dusky 

 brown, slightly tinged with rosy ; cheeks and under surface of body 

 pale rosy, or brown washed with rosy, narrowly streaked with dusky 

 brown or blackish, these streaks broader on the sides of the body, 

 which are browner; abdomen whitish; thighs ashy; under tail- 

 coverts white, slightly tinged with rosy and mesially streaked with 

 blackish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries whitish, with a ver- 

 milion tinge uear the edge of the wing ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 along the inner edge. Total length 5 - 3 inches, culmen - 5, wing 

 3*4, tail 2-2, tarsus - 75. (Mus. H. Seebohm.) 



Hub. Eastern Siberia, Japan, and China. 



a. cJad.sk. Japan, Dec. 1874 (Capt. St. Hume Coll. 



John). 

 0. $ ad. ; Kultuk, Lake Baikal, Feb. Purchased. 



c. cf juv. ak. 

 d, e. tf ad. sk. Kiachta, Transbaikalia, Jan. 8, Purchased. 



