44. CARPODACUS. 42!) 



crown of head like the back and similarly streaked with black ; the 

 base of the forehead minutely varied with whitish streaks ; lores 

 dusky ; a whitish eyebrow, streaked narrowly with blackish ; sides 

 of face whitish, streaked with dark brown ; the ear-coverts 

 uniform pale brown, streaked with dusky brown ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body whitish with a fulvous tinge, the throat 

 narrowly streaked with blackish, becoming broader on the fore neck 

 and breast ; the abdomen uniform whitish ; sides of body and 

 flanks washed with brown and broadly streaked with blackish ; 

 thighs whitish, streaked with dark brown ; under tail-coverts whitish, 

 brown in the centre of the long ones, all with blackish shaft- 

 streaks : under wing-coverts and axillaries pale brown, with a tawny 

 tinge on the latter ; quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. 

 Total length 5 - 3 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-9, tail 2-4, tarsus - 7o. 

 Nab. Himalaya Mountains, from the neighbourhood of Masuri to 

 Nepal. 



a, b. $ ad. sk. Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



c-d. cj 2 a d. sk. Baghirati Valley. Hume Coll. (Types 



of species.) 



e,f. 2 ad. sk. Near Suki, Masuri Hills, May Hume Coll. 



1874 ( W. E. Brooks). 



g, h. 2 ad. sk. Above Derali, May 20, 1874 Hume Coll. 



( W. E. £.). 



t. 5ad.sk. Derali, May 13, 1874 (W. E.B.). Hume Coll. 



26. Carpodacus pulcherrimus. 



Propasser pulchemma vel rkodochroa, Hodgs. Icon. ined. pi. 301 



(fig. 467) * ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844). 

 Propasser pulcherrimus, Moore, P. Z. S. 1855, p. 216 ; Horsf. Sr 



Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 460 (1856); Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 



p. 462 (1863) ; Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. B. p. 471 (1873) ; 



id. Str. F. 1874, p. 317 ; id. Str. F. 1879, p. 108. 

 Carpodacus pulcherrimus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 102, no. 7521 



(1870). 

 Carpodacus davidianus, Milne-Edwards, Nouv. Arch. i. Bull. p. 19, 



pi. ii. fig. 2 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 101, no. 7517 (1870) ; 



Sivinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 3*87. 

 Propasser davidianus, David $■ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 354, pi. 95 



(1877). 



Adult male. General colour above ruddy brown, streaked with 

 black centres, the mantle rather more ashy ; rump clear rosy ; 

 lesser wing-coverts ruddy brown ; median and greater coverts dusky 

 brown, edged with lighter brown, rather rosy towards the ends ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, edged with 



* Figs. 465, 466, on the same plate, are males of true P. rhodochrous, the 

 female (no. 467) being a hen of the present bird. Among Hodgson's specimens 

 numbered "467 " were also some females of I', amb/guut. The species will stand 

 as P. pulcherrimus of Moore (ut supra), who has adopted Hodgson's name from 

 the female bird, and it seems better to retain it now, as the species is fully 

 recognized by ornithologists. 



