416 FRINGILLID.*;. 



tail-feathers dark brown, margined with lighter brown ; crown of 

 head like the back, all the feathers centred with black ; the feathers 

 above the eye slightly varied with whitish margins, these light 

 feathers continued into a rather broad superciliary band of pale 

 sandy buff above the ear-coverts ; lores asby whitish ; ear-coverts 

 dark brown, the lower part slightly streaked with sandy buff; cheeks 

 and throat ashy whitish, broadly streaked with black like the rest of 

 the under surface, which is sandy buff ; the abdomen uniform and 

 unspotted ; sides of body and flanks thickly streaked with black ; 

 thighs brown ; under tail-coverts sandy buff with blackish shaft- 

 lines ; under wing-coverts and axillaries deep sandy buff, paler on 

 the lower series ; quills below dusky, more ashy along the inner 

 edge. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0'4, wing 2-8, tail 2*8, 

 tarsus 07. (Mus. Paris.) 



Male. Unknown. 



Hub. Moupin. 



The only specimen in the Paris Museum, for the opportunity 

 of describing which I have to thank Prof. Milne-Edwards, is un- 

 doubtedly a female of some species closely allied to C. rhodopeplus : 

 but it is decidedly smaller than the latter bird. 



16. Carpodacus vinaceus. 



Carpodacus vinaceus, Verr. Nbuv. Arch. Mies. vi. Bull. p. 39 (1870), 



vii. p. 61 (1871), viii. pi. iv. figs. 1, 2 (1672). 

 Propasser vinaceus, David 8f Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 3-jG, pi. 96 (1877). 



Adult male (type of species). Dark crimson, the feathers being 

 blackish with dark crimson edges ; lower back and rump finer 

 crimson or deep rosy : upper tail-coverts blackish, edged with dark 

 crimson like the back ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills blackish, edged externally with reddish 

 brown, the inner secondaries with a large spot of rosy pink at the 

 end of the outer web ; tail-feathers black ; crown of head deep 

 crimson ; a distinct eyebrow of lanceolate pearly rose-tipped fea- 

 thers ; lores dusky blackish ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and sides of 

 body deep crimson, with faintly indicated blackish shaft-lines, more 

 distinct on the abdomen, which is paler rose-colour ; thighs black ; 

 under tail-coverts blackish, tipped with rose-colour : under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries sooty black ; quills dusky black below, a little 

 more ashy on the inner web : " bill brown ; feet reddish grey ; iris 

 reddish chestnut " (A. David). Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 2-8, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-8. (Mus. Paris.) 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 nearly uniform dark ochreous brown: the feathers of the mantle 

 and back slightly mottled with dusky centres ; the lower back and 

 rump uniform ; wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater 

 series rather paler at the ends ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dark brown, externally ochreous brown, the innermost 

 secondaries with a large mark of yellowish white at the ends of 



