45. PTRRHOSPIZA. 431 



o,p. d ; q, r. $ Nepal. Hodgson Coll. 



ad. sk. (Types of species.) 



s, t. S 2 a( i. sk. Nepal {Hodgson). India Museum. 



u. c? ad. sk. Native Sikkiui, Jan. 1875. Hume Coll. 



v. cj ad. sk. Native Sikbim, April 1875. Hume Coll. 



w. <$ ad. sk. Kansu, April. Gen. Prjevalski [C.]. 



45. PYRRHOSPIZA. 



T - y P. e - 

 Pyrrhospiza, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 953 (1341) . . P. punicea. 



Linurgus, Reichenb. Syst. Av. Taf. lxxviii. fig. 9 (1850, nee 



Ligurinus) P. olivacea. 



Range. Himalaya Mountains, extending to Kan-su ; Cameroons 

 Mountains in Western Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



I punicea, p. 431. 

 humii, p. 433. 

 longirostris, p. 433. 

 b. With yellow in the plumage; head and throat 



black olivacea, p. 434. 



1. Pyrrhospiza punicea. 



Carpodacus subroseus, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 306 (no. 831). 

 Pyrrhospiza punicea, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 953 (1844) ; 



Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 121 (1849); id. J. A. S. Beng. 



xxiii. p. 214 (1854) ; Horsf. # Moore, Cat. B. E. I. Co. Mus. ii. 



p. 461 (1856) ; Jerd, B. Ind, ii. p. 406 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, 



p. 44 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p. 108. 

 Propyrrhula rubeculoides, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 85 (1844) ; 



id.' P. Z. S. 1845, p. 36. 

 Strobilophaga rubeculoides, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 18 (1849). 

 Strobilophaga caucasica (nee Pall.), Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal 



pres. Hodgs. p. 110 (1846). 

 Carpodacus puniceus, Bp. fy Schl. Monogr. Loxiens, p. 25, pis. 27, 28 



(1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 530 (1850). 

 Pimcola punicea, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 109, no. 7643 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown, mottled all over 

 with blackish centres to the feathers ; scapulars like the back ; rump 

 bright rose-colour ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, but washed with 

 reddish ; median and greater coverts dark brown, edged with rather 

 paler brown, the greater series slightly washed with reddish brown ; 

 Dastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, narrowly 

 margined with ashy brown, a little lighter on the edges of the pri- 

 maries ; upper tail-coverts rather lighter brown ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with lighter brown ; crown of head like the back, and 

 similarly mottled with blackish centres to the feathers ; a broad frontal 

 band of crimson ; lores dusky, tipped with crimson ; eyebrow crimson, 



