44. CARPODACUS. 417 



th9 outer web ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, with ochreous-brown edges : crown of head rather more 

 decidedly ochreous than the back and strongly mottled with dark 

 brown centres ; lores and eyelid butty whitish ; ear-coverts uniform 

 dirk ochreous brown ; cheeks rather lighter, whity brown anteriorly ; 

 under surface of body lighter and more ruddy ochreous ; the throat 

 rather broadly and the fore neck and breast more narrowly streaked 

 with dusky brown ; abdomen uniform ruddy ochreous brown ; the 

 sides of body and flanks rather more dusky brown, as also the 

 thighs ; under tail-coverts brown, with ochreous edges and tips, the 

 longer ones edged with whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 dull ochreous brown, the lower greater coverts paler ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 57 inches, culmen 

 0*45, wing 2-55, tail 2*15, tarsus 0-7. 

 Hah. Western China. 



a, b. $ 2 a( i- s k- Ichang Gorge, Yangtze C. Maries, Esq. [C.]. 



River. 



17. Carpodacus rhodopeplus. 



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



Himal. Mts. pi. 31. fig. 1 (1832). 

 Propasser rhodopeplus, Hodqs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 299. figs. 1, 2 (no. 340) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844) ; 



id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 36 ; Horsf. $ Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. 



p. 458 (1856) ; Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 400 (1863) ; Bhjth, Ibis, 1867, 



p. 44 ; Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 15, 1879, p. 108. 

 Erythrospiza rhodopepla, Blyth, J. A. & Beng. xiii. p. 952 (1844). 

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



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



As. Soc. p. 121 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 531 (1850; ; Grai/, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 101, no. 7518 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above dark crimson or ruddy brown 

 washed with crimson, all the feathers centred with black, the feathers 

 of the mantle relieved with a spot of clear rose-colour near the end 

 of the outer web ; rump rosy, all the feathers being tipped with clear 

 rose-colour ; wing-coverts blackish, edged with dark crimson ; the 

 median and greater coverts relieved by a spot of clear rosy at the 

 end of the outer web ; bastard-wing dusky blackish, fringed with 

 ashy rosy ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, edged with dark 

 crimson, the inner secondaries with a rosy mark near the end of the 

 outer web ; upper tail-coverts dark crimson ; tail-feathers dusky 

 brown, edged with dark crimson ; crown of head dark crimson like the 

 back, but the black centres not so distinct ; along the sides of the 

 crown a broad eyebrow of pointed rosy feathers with a slight pearly 

 gloss ; lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts blackish, washed 

 with dark crimson, with a little patch of pointed rosy feathers near 

 the lower edge of the latter ; cheeks and under surface of the body 

 rich crimson, with mesial black streaks ; the throat ornamented 

 with pointed tips of pearly rose-colour ; all the breast-feathers 

 broadly tipped with crimson ; the abdomen paler and more rosy, 



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