428 FRINGILLIDJ5. 



cheeks and throat rose-colour, with lanceolate spangles of pearly 

 white, becoming narrower on the fore neck and chest, where they 

 form glistening shaft-lines ; breast and under surface of body 

 generally rich rose-colour ; abdomen white, streaked with blackish 

 on the upper parts ; sides of body and flanks light brown, the rose- 

 colour of the breast, however, descending on each side of the white 

 abdomen ; thighs light brown ; under tail-coverts rose-colour, the 

 longer ones longitudinally centred with blackish ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries whitish ; quills below dusky ashy, slightly 

 tinged with rosy along the inner edge. Total length 6*6 iuches, 

 culmen 0-4-3, wing 3-3, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-9. 



Bab. Prom Alachan and Kansu, probably throughout Thibet, as 

 it re-occurs in the North-western Himalayas. 



a. J ad. sk. Kansu, April. General Prjevalski 



[C.]. 



b. <J ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas. Gould Coll. 



c. cS ad. sk. N.W. Himalayas, Junglag, Dec. Gould Coll. 



1847. 



25. Carpodacus ambiguus. (Plate X.) 



Propasser ambiguus, Hume, Str. F. 1S74, p. 326 ; Brooks, Str. F. 

 1875, p. 2oo; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 108. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dull brown, the 

 feathers centred with blackish, the pale edges to the feathers more 

 distinct on the mantle and upper back ; the rump uniform pale 

 rosy : lesser wing-coverts dark brown ; median and greater coverts 

 dark brown, edged with pale brown which is tinged with rosy, less 

 distinct on the greater coverts ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 uniform dark brown ; quills dark brown, edged with paler brown ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers dark brown, with paler brown 

 edges, narrower ou the latter ; crown of head blackish, with a faint 

 tinge of crimson ; lores and a tolerably distinct eyebrow dark 

 crimson ; feathers round eye, sides of face, and ear-coverts dark 

 crimson, as also the cheeks and throat; remainder of under surface 

 pale rose-colour, with dusky shaft-streaks, the feathers of the fore 

 neck and chest slightly washed with crimson ; sides of the body and 

 flanks rather more broadly streaked with blackish brown ; thighs 

 ashy brown ; under tail-coverts pale rosy : under wing- coverts and 

 axillaries ashy whitish, washed with rosy ; quills below dusky, ashy 

 whitish along the inner edge. Total length 5-5 inches, wing 3, 

 tail 2-1. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 pale brown, with broad blackish-brown centres to the feathers, the 

 rump not so strongly centred with blackish, but the upper tail- 

 coverts like the back ; lesser wing-coverts dark brown ; median and 

 greater coverts blackish brown, edged with paler brown, whity 

 brown at the ends of the feathers ; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, 

 quills, and tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with paler brown ; 



