44. CARPODACUS. 



42) 



y. <$ ad. sk. 

 z. S ; «'• 2 ad. ; 

 b'. d imm. sk. 

 c', d'. (S 2 ad. sk. 

 e'. cJ ad. sk. 

 /'. d 1 ad. sk. 



g', h'. 2 ad. sk. 

 *'. cJ ad. sk. 

 k', l'. 5 ad. sk. 

 m',n',o'. J ad. sk. 

 p', q', rf ad. sk. 

 r'. $ ad. sk. 

 s', t' . $ 2 ad- sk. 

 w'. 2 a d. sk. 

 1/. j juv. sk. 

 w'. c? ad. sk. 

 x', y'. $ 2 a( i- sk. 

 z'. c? ad. sk. 



a, /3. 2 ad- sk. 

 y. c? ad. sk. 

 8. Juv. sk. 

 *, (. d 2 a( i- sk. 



Native Sikhim, June 1878 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Native Sikkiin, Oct. 1873 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Native Sikhim, Nov. 1876 (i. M.). Hume Coll. 



Native Sikhim, Dec. 1879 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Interior of Sikhim, June 1873 Hume Coll. 



(L. M.). 



Interior of Sikhim,Oct. 1873 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Sikhim, Jan. 1873 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Sikhim, March 1873 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Sikhim, June 1873 {L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Sikhim, Aug. 1873 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Sikhim, Aug. 1873 {L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Sikhim, 1879 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Sikhim, (J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



Sikhim (J. <?.). Hume Coll. 



Tongloo, Sikhim, Dec. 1879 (L. M.). Hume Coll. 



Darjiling. Hume Coll. 



Darjiling, winter 1869-70 (H. J. Hume Coll. 



Elwes). 



Darjiling, April 1869. Hume Coll. 



Darjiling, Oct. 1868. Hume Coll. 



Darjiling. Gould Coll. 



Thibet, March 1875 (i. Mandelli). Hume Coll. 



24. Carpodacus dubius. 



Propasser frontalis (nee Say), Blijth, Ibis, 1862, p. 390 ; id. J. A. S. 



Beng. xxxii. p. 458 (18U3) ; jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 403 (1863), iii. 



App. p. 87 (1864) ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 459 ; id. Str. F. 



1879, p. 108 ; G. F. L. Marshall, Ibis, 18bl, p. 84. 

 Carpodacus dubius, Prjev. in Roioley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 301, pi. liii. 



(1877). 

 Propasser dubius, David §• Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 552 (1877). 

 Propasser blythi, Biddulph, Ibis, 1882, p. 283, pi. 19. 



Adult male. General colour above light brown, all the feathers of 

 the back streaked with dark brown, with slightly paler edges ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts beautiful clear rose-colour, the 

 latter witb brown bases and central streaks ; lesser wing-coverts 

 dark brown washed with crimson ; median coverts blackish brown, 

 tipped with rosy ; greater coverts blackish brown, edged with paler 

 rosy brown, whitish at the ends of the outer web ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, edged with light brown 

 like the back, slightly tinged with rosy, the secondaries paler on the 

 margins, which are whitish at the ends of the innermost; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, fringed with lighter brown ; crown of head 

 like the back, and similarly 6treaked with dark brown ; a broad 

 frontal band of most beautiful pearly silver plumes, continued back- 

 wards over the eye, where it becomes mixed with rose-colour, and 

 terminates in a broad streak of whitish on each side of the occiput; 

 lores and a narrow line across the base of the forehead deep crimson ; 

 car-coverts deep rose-colour, slightly spangled with pearly white ; 



