418 FRIXGILI.ID-£. 



uniform ; sides of body and flanks ruddy brown, with crimson ends 

 to tbe feathers, paler on the latter ; thighs oehreous brown ; under 

 tail-coverts ruddy brown, with crimson ends to the feathers ; under 

 wing-coverts dusky, the longer ones whitish, washed with rosy ; 

 asillaries oehreous brown, edged with rosy ; quills below dusky, 

 ashv along the inner edge. Total length 6"S inches, culmen - 6, wing 

 3-3, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult umale. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, the feathers with broad central streaks of black ; the head 

 like the back; the mantle-feathers edged with oehreous buff; rump 

 more uniform brown, with scarcely any indication of dusky centres ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky 

 brown, edged with oehreous brown, and with a pale ochreous-buff 

 mark near the end of the outer web ; bastard-wing blackish, nar- 

 rowly fringed with ashy ; primary-coverts and quills blackish, edged 

 with oehreous brown, paler oehreous buff along the margin of the 

 primaries, and with a spot of light oehreous buff near the end of the 

 inner secondaries, resembling the greater coverts ; upper tail-coverts 

 dull oehreous brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, with ochreous-brown 

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

 a broad eyebrow of pale oehreous buff : feathers below the eye blackish ; 

 lower part of ear-coverts and cheeks oehreous buff, streaked and 

 mottled with black, and separated from the throat by a narrow black 

 malar line ; throat and under surface of the body clear oehreous 

 buff, streaked with black, the streaks narrower on the breast : abdo- 

 men uniform ; sides of body and flanks washed with brown, with 

 distinct blackish shaft-stripes ; thighs pale ashy ; under tail-coverts 

 oehreous buff, with dusky centres to the feathers ; under wing-coverts 

 dusky brown, washed with oehreous, the longer ones ashy whitish ; 

 axillaries dull oehreous buff; quills below dusky, ashy along the 

 inner edge. Total length 6*5 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 3 - 05, tail 

 2-65, tarsus O'So. 



Hah. Himalaya Mountains, from Masuri to Sikhim. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Hills north of Masuri. Hume Coll. 



b, e. tf 2 ad. sk. Nepal (B. H Hodgson). India Museum. 

 d. <$ ad. ; e, f, g. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



2 ad. sk. 



h. 3 ad. ; i, k, I. Dolaka, Nepal, Jan. 1875-76 Hume Coll. 



$ ad. sk. (L. Mandelli). 



m. 2 ad. sk. Sikhim, 1879 (L. Mandelli). Hume Coll. 



18. Carpodacus edwardsi. 



Carpodacus edwardsi, Verr. N.. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull. p. 39 (1870), 



vii. p. 58 (1871), viii. pi. 3 (1872). 

 Propasser saturatus, Blanf. J. A. S. Beng. xli. p. 168 (1872) ; id. 



Ibis, 1873, p. 218 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 418. 

 Propasser edwardsi, David $ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 355, pi. 94 (1877) ; 



Hume, Str. F. 1878, vcl. ii. p. 415 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 108. 



Adult male. General colour above ruddy brown, washed with crim- 



