424 FKING1LLIDJ". 



21. Carpodacus roseipectus. 



Carpodacus frontalis (nee Say), Bp. 8f Sehl. Monogr. Loxiens, pi. 1 7 



(1850). 

 Carpodacus bseruorrhous {nee WagL), Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 303, 



1859, p. 380. 



Adult male. General colour above dark ashy brown, the feathers 

 of the mantle and back somewhat mottled with dark-brown centres ; 

 rump deep crimson ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts dark brown, with a broad ending of paler and more 

 ashy brown ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish 

 brown, fringed with ashy, the inner secondaries more broadly edged 

 with pale brown ; upper tail-coverts brown ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, narrowly edged with ashy brown ; crown of head uniform 

 dark ashy brown, the forehead deep crimson, passing backwards 

 into a broad eyebrow ; nasal plumes whitish ; lores, feathers round 

 eye, and ear-coverts uniform ashy brown, like the sides of the neck ; 

 cheeks and throat dark crimson, the latter well defined ; fore neck 

 and breast ashy brown, all washed with pale rose-colour, and 

 streaked with dusky brown on the lower breast, which is ashy 

 whitish like the abdomen ; sides of body and flanks ashy brown, 

 streaked with darker brown ; thighs pale ashy brown ; under tail- 

 coverts whity brown, washed with rosy, and longitudinally centred 

 with dark brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale ashy 

 tinged with rosy ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. 

 Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 3, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Not distinguished from the female of Cmexiccmus. 

 Total length 5*6 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2-9, tail 2-35, tarsus 07. 



Hob. Southern Mexico. 



a-b. S ad. sk. Oaxaca, W. Mexico (A. Fenoehio). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 c. 5 ad. sk. Oaxaca, Nov. 1860 (A. Salle). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



22. Carpodacus amplus. 



Carpodacus amplus, Ridgw. Bull. U. S. Geol. § Geogr. Sure. Terr. 

 ii. p. 187 (1876) ; id. Pruc. U. S. Nat. Mils. iii. pp. 176, 229 



(1880). 



Adult. Above, dark brownish grey, the feathers indistinctly darker 

 centrally, the wing- and tail-feathers edged with paler brownish 

 grey. Lower parts dull white, conspicuously streaked with brownish 

 grey. 



Male. Frontal band (about 0-15-0-30 wide), superciliary stripe 

 back to the ends of the auriculars, cheeks (anterior half of the max- 

 illary region), chin, throat, breast, and patch on lower part of the 

 rump bright crimson. Wing 3-30-3-35 ; tail 2-80-2-90 ; bill, from 

 nostril, 0-42-0-45 ; depth of bill 0-42-0-50, breadth of bill 0-32- 

 U-35 ; tarsus 0-80 ; middle toe 0-60-0-65. 



Female. Lacking the red, each feather of the lower parts having 

 a distinct central streak. WiDg 3-10-3-25 ; tail 2-60-2-90 ; length 

 of bill 0-40-0-45: depth of bill 0-40-0-48, breadth 0-32-0-38; 

 tarsus 0'75-0'85 ; middle toe 0*58-0-65, 



