4] 4 FRINGILLIILE. 



brownish fleshy ; iris nut-brown " ( W. Davison). Total length 5*8 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2*9, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-8. 



A male bird shot by Mr. Brooks at Dhurmsala in June has the 

 back-feathers partly ochreous brown, as in the first stage, with a 

 few of the crimson-tinged feathers of the fully adult male. The 

 rosy colour on the rump, eyebrow, and under surface is rather paler. 

 This is doubtless a male of the previous year. Other specimens 

 in the Museum show traces of the striped plumage still remaining 

 among the rosy feathers of the throat and breast. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, tinged with ochreous brown on the mantle and back, 

 all the feathers of which are centred with black, the rump rather 

 paler ochreous brown, and with only faint traces of dusky centres ; 

 lesser wing-coverts uniform dark brown ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish, rather broadly edged with deep sandy brown, 

 paler on the margins ; bastard-wing blackish, fringed with pale 

 sandy brown ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, edged with 

 deep sandy brown, rather lighter on the primaries ; upper tail- 

 coverts dull ochreous brown, with scarcely perceptible dusky centres ; 

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

 a little darker than the back, and similarly centred with black ; 

 the forehead rather paler, and streaked with ochreous buff; lores 

 and a ring round the eye blackish, surmounted by an eyebrow 

 of pale ochreous buff, broad and distinct ; ear-coverts blackish 

 brown, except on the lower part, which, like the cheeks, is deep 

 ochreous buff, streaked with black, separated from the throat by a 

 narrow malar line of black ; under surface of body ochreous buff, 

 the throat whiter and streaked with black, the fore neck and chest 

 rather more distinctly, the streaks narrower on the breast ; abdomen 

 uniform ; sides of body and flanks streaked with dusky blackish ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts ochreous buff, the latter with narrow 

 dusky shaft-lines ; under wing-coverts and axillaries uniform 

 ochreous buff ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : 

 " upper mandible dark brown, lower mandible pale fleshy brown, 

 slightly tinged with bluish ; legs, feet, and claws pale fleshy brown ; 

 iris nut-browu " ( W. Davison). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 2-85, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-72. 



The young male in first winter plumage cannot be distinguished 

 from the old females. Four specimens are in the Hume Collection, 

 shot by Mr. Davison at Simla in November and December 1880. 

 He describes the soft parts as follows : — " Upper mandible dark 

 brown, the lower mandible greyish fleshy brown, suffused with 

 dusky on the sides and at the tip ; legs and feet greyish fleshy 

 brown, claws dark brown ; iris nut-brown." 



Very old females gain a slight tinge of rosy on the breast. 



Specimens from the more eastern portions of the bird's range are 

 rather darker and more richly coloured. 



Hal). Himalayas, from Cashmere to Nepal. 



