

44. CARPODACUS. 413 



k. 5juv.sk. Mount Shasta, Aug. 25 (C, U. S. Nat. Museum [P.]. 



II. Townsend; Sna. no. 



92.384). 

 I. Juv. sk. Mount Shasta, Aug. 28 (C. H. K. Coale, Esq. [P.]. 



H. Townsend; Sm. no. 



92383). 

 m. d ad. sk. Valley of Mexico (Le Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Strange). 



14. Carpodacus rhodochrous. 



Fringilla rhodochroa, Vigors, P.Z. S. 1831, p. 23; Gould, Cent. B. 



Himal. Mts. pi. 31. fig. 2 (1832). 

 Erythrospiza rhodochroa, Blyth, J. A. S. Bene/, xiii. p. 953 (1844). 

 Propasser pulcherrima vel rhodochroa, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. 



Mils., Passeres, pi. 301. figs. 465, 466 ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 



p. 85 (1844). 

 Propasser rhodochrous, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 36 ; Horsf. § Moore, 



Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 459 (1856) ; Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 403 



(1863) ; Blyth, Ibis. 1867, p. 44 ; Beavan, t. c. p. 141 ; Pelz. Ibis, 



1868, p. 318; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 255; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 



p. 108; Butler, Str. F. 1880, pp. 368, 417; Lloyd, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 469. 

 Carpodacus rhodochrous, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 384 (1844) ; id. Cat. 



Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 109 (1846) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. 



As. Soc. p. 122 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 531 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 101, no. 7516 (1870). 

 Phcenicospiza rhodochroa, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiii. p. 213 



(1854). 



Adult male. General colour above ruddy brown, with a wash of 

 rose-colour, the feathers of the back broadly centred with blackish 

 brown ; the rump uniform deep rose-colour ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; median and greater coverts blackish, externally and 

 at the tips ruddy brown like the back, rather paler on the greater 

 series ; bastard-wing dusky brown ; primary-coverts and quills 

 blackish, externally margined with ruddy brown, paler on the inner 

 secondaries ; upper tail-coverts dusky, washed with dark rose-colour : 

 tail-feathers dusky brown, edged with ruddy brown ; crown of head 

 dusky crimson, the feathers with only slightly indicated dark centres ; 

 a broad stripe commencing at the base of the forehead, and extending 

 backwards over the eye to the sides of the nape, bright rose-colour 

 with a pearly gloss ; lores dark crimson, as also the eyelid : ear- 

 coverts, sides of face, and cheeks dark rose-colour, with a broad 

 streak of dusky crimson behind the eye ; throat and under surface 

 of body rich rose-colour, a little clearer and purer on the breast and 

 abdomen ; sides of body and flanks ochreous brown ; thighs brown ; 

 uuder tail-coverts pale rose-colour ; axillaries pale sandy brown, 

 washed with rose-colour ; under wing-coverts white, washed with 

 rosy, especially near the edge of the wing ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 along the inner edge : " bill dark brown, the upper mandible at 

 gape and the lower mandible brownish fleshy : the lower mandible 

 shaded on the sides and at the tip with dusky ; legs and feet 



