44. cARroDACus. 425 



Young. Similar in plumage to the adult female, but light edges 

 to wing- and tail-feathers broader and more inclining to fulvous. 

 {Ridgway.') 



The upper mandible is nearly black, the lower much lighter, a 

 purplish horn-colour in the male, almost white in the female ; the 

 feet are brownish black. In the male the back is just appreciably 

 glossed with a faint red tinge, and the shade of the red markings 

 varies from a deep harsh carmine or true crimson to almost a red- 

 lead hue. The coloration is exactly like that of 0. frontalis from 

 the Eocky Mountains, except that the tints are all darker ; but the 

 size is in every way so much greater that no comparison is needed, 

 as the measurements will demonstrate. (Rid <j way.) 



Hub. Guadelupe Island, Lower California. 



23. Carpodacus thura. 



Carpodacus thura, Bp. fy Schl. Monogr. Lo.riens, p. 21, pi. 23 (1850) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 531 (1850); Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 101, no. 7510 



(1870). 

 Propasser thura, Horsf. fy Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 450 



(1856); Moore, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 215, pi. 113; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 



p. 401 (1863); Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 15; David <§• Oust. Ois. 



Chine, p. 357 (1877) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 108, 1880, p. 350. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, broadly streaked with 

 black centres to the feathers ; rump beautiful rose-colour ; lesser 

 wing-coverts blackish, edged with rosy at the ends ; median coverts 

 blackish, tipped with pale rosy ; greater coverts blackish, edged with 

 brown, tinged with rosy on the outer ones, and creamy white 

 towards the ends of the outer webs ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills blackish, edged with dull rosy, the secondaries with 

 brown, the innermost with creamy white like the greater coverts ; 

 upper tail-coverts rosy, with black centres, the outer ones brown : 

 tail-feathers blackish, edged with brown ; crown of head brown, 

 streaked with black like the back ; the forehead rosy, with a pearly 

 gloss, extending backwards in the form of a broad eyebrow, which 

 is succeeded by a broad streak of creamy white above the ear- 

 coverts ; lores and feathers below the eye dark crimson ; feathers 

 round eye and a broad streak above the ear-coverts dark brown ; 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat beautiful rose-colour, with pearly- 

 white centres, giving a streaked appearance ; sides of neck uniform 

 brown ; remainder of under surface uniform rosy, the fore neck and 

 chest slightly streaked with pearly-white shaft-lines ; sides of breast 

 narrowly streaked with black ; lower abdomen white ; sides of body 

 and flanks brown, streaked with black ; thighs ashy brown ; under 

 tail-coverts rosy, the long ones edged with white and centred with 

 black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries greyish white ; edge of 

 wing washed with rosy ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner 

 edge. Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3'4, tail 3, 

 tarsus 0*9. 



A male, killed in August, is in worn plumage, but retains the 

 same characters as the January specimen described. The stripes on 



