450 FRINGILLID^!. 



purplish black, ashy grey at tho ends, the inner ones much more 

 broadly tipped, the bases only black ; bastard- wing and primary- 

 coverts dusky black ; quills black, externally purplish black, the 

 secondaries more broadly edged with the latter colour ; upper tail- 

 coverts purplish black ; tail-feathers black, edged with purplish 

 black ; crown of head purplish black ; lores and feathers round 

 the eye, as well as the fore part of the cheeks and chin, black ; 

 feathers round eye, ear-coverts, hinder cheeks, and remainder of 

 throat pale scarlet ; fore neck and remainder of under surface of 

 body ashy grey, whiter on the abdomen ; sides of body and flanks a 

 little lighter ashy ; thighs ashy grey ; under tail-coverts white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the wing ashy 

 grey ; quills below dusky, ashy white along the inner edge. Total 

 length inches, culinen 0'4, wing 3*5, tail 2*45, tarsus - 7. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 chocolate-brown, the rump white ; lesser and median coverts ashy 

 grey ; greater coverts brown at base, washed externally with purplish 

 black and tipped with pale ashy, the inner ones more broadly ; 

 bastard- wing and primary-coverts blackish ; quills blackish, exter- 

 nally purplish black, the inner secondaries entirely of the latter 

 colour ; upper tail-coverts and centre tail-feathers purplish black, 

 the remainder of the tail-feathers black, edged with purplish black ; 

 crown of head black, separated from the back by a broad collar of 

 ashy grey ; eyelid, fore part of cheeks, and chin black ; ear-coverts, 

 remainder of cheeks, and under surface of body chocolate-brown ; 

 lower abdomen and vent whitish ; thighs chocolate-brown ; under 

 tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, washed 

 with brown ; quills below dusky, ashy whitish along the inner edge. 

 Total length 5*8 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 3-3, tail 2 - 55, tarsus 07. 



Ilab. Japan and the island of Askold, occasionally visiting the 

 mainland of Eastern Siberia and extending to the neighbourhood of 

 Pekin. 



a. $ ad. sk. Hakodadi, Japan, March 24, Gould Coll. 



1885 (H. Whitely). 



b, c. (S ad. sk. Yokohama (H. Pri/er). II. Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. a. Pyrrhula kurilensis. (Plate XL) 

 Pyrrhula kurilensis, Sharpe, Zool. 1886, p. 485; Stejneger, Proc. U.S. 



Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 110. 

 Pyrrhula orientalis kurilensis, Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 101. 



Adult male. Similar to P. r/riseiventris, but much paler in colour, 

 being pale ashy brown above instead of blue-grey, and pale drab- 

 brown below instead of bluish grey, but faintly tinged with rosy on 

 the breast. Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 3-5, tail 2*6, 

 tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Not to be distinguished from the female of P. r/ri- 

 seiventris. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 3-25, tail 2-45, 

 tarsus 0-7. (Mux. H. Seebohm.) 



Hab. Kurile Islands. 

 a, b J $ ad. sk. Kurile Islands. Purchased. 



