442 TRINGILLID^. 



2. Loxia bifasciata. 



Crucirostra bifasciata, Brehm, Ornis. iii. p. 85 (1827) ; id. Isis, 1827, 



p. 714. 

 Loxia tasniuptera, Gloger, Isis, 1827, p. 411 ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 388 



(1845) ; id. Iland-l. B. ii. p. 108, no. 7637 (1870) ; Salvad. Faun. 



Ital., Ucc. p. 1(54 (1871). 

 Crucirostra taenioptera, Brehm, Isis, 1827, p. 716. 

 Loxia bifasciata, Selys-Lonqch. Faun. Belqe, p. 76 (1842) ; Schl. Rev. 



Crit. p. 68 (1844; : Thomps. B. Irel. i. p. 283 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 527 (1850) ; id. Sf Snhi. Monogr. Loxiens, p. 7, pi. 8 (1850) ; 



Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 178 (1854) ; Licht Nomencl. Av. Neotr. i. 



p. 48 (1854) ; Sunder. Sv. Fogl. pi. i. fig. 5, pi. ii. rig. 1 (1856) ; 



Graii, List Brit. B. p. Ill (1863) ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Fur. i. 



p. 264 (1867) ; Gould, B. Gt. Br. iii. pi. 47 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. 



Taf. 19. fig. 2 (c. 1870) ; R. Gray, B. West Scotl. p. 155 (1871) ; 



Hurting, Hondo. Brit. B. p. 115 (1872); Fallon, Ois. Belg. p. 93 



(1875); Newt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. ii. p. 211 (1877); Dresser, B. 



Eur. iv. p. 141, pi. 205 (1877); Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 187; 



Giylioli, Ibis, 1881, p. 204 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 378 ; B. O. U. 



List Brit. B. p. 58 (1883); Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 27 



(1884); Salvad. Elench. Ucc. Ital. p. 182 (1887). 

 Loxia leucoptera (nee Gm.), Middend. Reis. Sibir., Zool. p. 154 



(1851) ; Kjcerb. Orn. Dan. Taf. 28 b. fig. 1 (1852); Schrenck, Reis. 



Amurl. p. 303 (1859) ; Radde, Reis. Sibir., Vog. p. 194 (1863) ; 



Borqqr. Vogelf. Norddeutschl. p. 78 (1869) ; Corileaux, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 183. 

 Crucirostra rubrifasciata, etc., Brehm, Naum. 1853, pp. 194,199, 241, 



245, 251, 253. 

 Loxia (Crucirostra) taenioptera, Naum. Vog. Deutschl., Anhang, 



pi. 385. figs. 1, 2, 3. 



Adult male. General colour above pale scarlet, the back more or 

 less mottled with dusky brown, the feathers being of the latter 

 colour tipped with scarlet ; rump uniform pale scarlet ; lesser wing- 

 coverts dark brown, washed with ruddy or yellowish brown ; median 

 coverts white, with dusky bases, forming a wide band ; greater 

 coverts blackish, broadly tipped with white, forming a second wing- 

 bar ; bastard-wing, primary- coverts, and quills blackish brown, 

 edged narrowly with reddish, a little plainer on the primaries, the 

 secondaries fringed with white at the ends, the innermost broadly 

 tipped with white ; upper tail-coverts blackish brown, edged and 

 tipped with pale red ; tail-feathers blackish brown, edged with paler 

 brown ; crown of head scarlet like the back, and similarly varied 

 with the dusky bases of the feathers ; hind neck rather browner 

 nasal plumes brown ; lores, feathers below the eye, and a streak 

 along the upper part of the ear-coverts dusky brown ; remainder of 

 the ear-coverts, cheeks, and under surface of body rosy, inclining to 

 scarlet on the breast : the abdomen whitish ; sides of body and 

 flanks pale scarlet; thighs light ashy; under tail-coverts whitish, 

 with broad longitudinal centres of black ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries whitish, with a wash of scarlet, the greater series ashy at 

 base ; quills below ashy, lighter along the inner edge. Total length 

 5-5 inches, eulmen 0-7, wing 3'65, tail 2-1, tarsus - 7. 



The so-called Loxia rubrifasciata of Brehm is probably only the 



