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wing-coverts do not differ from the quills in their coloration, the 

 larger ones have pale edges and the smaller ones have red ones ; 

 the frontal part of the upper tail-coverts is brown, the under tail- 

 coverts are rose-coloured ; culmcn dark horn-colour, lower mandible 

 yellow ; iris dark brown ; tarsus dark horn-colour. Length 8-5 to 

 9 inches, wing 4-49 to 4-88, tail 3-52 to 37, culmen 0-7 to 0-78, 

 tarsus 0-9 to 0-97. {Prjevalski.') 



Female. Upper parts of the body, wings, and tail like the male ; 

 forehead and underparts of the body yellowish dirty white, with 

 many dark spots, which latter get longer on the breast and dis- 

 appear on the stomach ; rump yellowish. Wing 4*5 to 4-7, tail 3 - 47 

 to 3-5, culmen 0*67, tarsus 0-96. (Prjevalski.) 



Bab. Kansu. 



General Prjevalski does not state how this species differs from 

 P. punicea, and apparently bases the distinctions on the length of 

 the bill. This varies, however, to a great extent in P. punicea, and 

 we believe that the two species are identical. 



3. Pyrrhospiza olivacea. 



Coccothraustes olivaceus, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 144 ; Allen # 



Thomps. Ftp. Niger, ii. p. 500 (1848) ; Fraser, Zool. Typ. pi. 47 



(1849). 

 Ligurnus olivaceus, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 140 (1857); Gray, Ann. 



| Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) x. p. 445 (1862). 

 Crithagra olivacea, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 101, no. 7505 (1870). 

 Ligurinus olivaceus, Sharpe, P. Z. IS. 1871, p. 615; Reichen. J.f. O. 



1875, p. 50. 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, clearer yellow 

 on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; lesser and median 

 coverts like the back ; greater coverts blackish, externally yellowish 

 green, and broadly tipped with yellow ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills black, edged with yellow, broader on the secon- 

 daries, which are margined with white along the inner web ; centre 

 tail-feathers olive-green, the remainder olive-brown, edged and 

 tipped with yellow, the inner webs yellow towards the end ; crown 

 of head black, separated from the back by a broad band of bright 

 yellow ; lores, sides of face, and throat black ; remainder of under 

 surface of body golden yellow, a little greener on the flanks and 

 thighs ; under wing-coverts and axillaries yellow ; quills below 

 dusky, ashy along the innei edge of the primaries, white on the 

 secondaries. Total length 5"6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-9, tail 

 1-9, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Much greener than the male, and only slightly 

 yellower on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; the head dingy 

 blackish, as also the sides of the face and throat, the latter washed 

 with olive ; fore neck, breast, and sides of the body greenish, yellow 

 in the centre of the breast and abdomen ; wings and tail as in the 

 male. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-65, tail 1-85, 

 tarsus 0*7. 



Young birds resemble the old female, but have the head greenish, 



