462 fringillidj:. 



x ,y- 6 2 ad.sk. Hamilton, Canada, Feb. 1885 R. B. Skarpe, Esq. 



(JT. C. Mcllwraith). [P.]. 



s, a'. (J 5 ad.sk. Fort Dufferin, Manitoba (67. N. A. Boundary 



Dawson). Coram. [P.]. 



b'. (J juv. sk. Bear Lake. B. R. Ross, Esq. [P.]. 



c'. <$ ad. sk. Fort Simpson, Oct. 13 (R. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Kennicott; Sm. no. 19581). 



(V, e'. J 5 ad. Fort Yukon, Alaska, Sept. 24, U. S. Nat. Museum 



sk. 1876 (L. M. Turner; Sm. [P.]. 



nos. 72275, 73265) 



49. PROPYRRHTJLA. 



Propyrrbula, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 1952 



(1844) P. snbhiinalayensis. 



Range. Himalaya Mountains. • 



1. Propyrrhula subhimalayensis *. 



Corytbus subbimacbalus, Hodgs. Asiatic Researches, xix. p. 152 



(1836); Bp. fy Schl. Monogr. Loxiens, p. 11, pi. 13 (1850); Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 528 (1850). 

 Corytbus subbernalayensis, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., Passeres, 



pi. 305. tigs. 1, 2. 

 Fropyrrhula subbemacbalana, Hodgs. J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 952 



(1844) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc.'y. 82 (1844). 

 Strobilophaga subbimachala, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 387 (1844); id. 



Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 454 (1840). 

 Spermopipes subbimacbalus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 48 (1854). 

 Propyrrbula subbimacbalana, Horsf. fy Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. 



ii. p. 454 (1856). 

 Propyrrbula subbemalacba, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 396 (1863) ; Blyth, 



Ibis, 1867, p. 44; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 108. 

 Pinicola subbemacbala, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 109, no. 7042 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above dark crimson, slightly mottled 

 with dusky centres to the feathers, the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 uniform ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater 

 coverts dusky brown, externally pale crimson ; bastard-wing and 

 primary- coverts dusky brown, narrowly fringed with dull crimson ; 

 quills dusky brown, the primaries edged with dull crimson, some of 

 the secondaries with olive-yellow, the inner ones with pale rosy, 

 ashy whitish towards the ends ; tail-feathers dusky brown, edged 

 with dull crimson ; crown of head like the back, with a band of 

 bright crimson across the forehead, extending over the eye ; lores 

 dusky ; feathers round eye pale crimson ; ear-coverts dark crimson 



* I propose that the specific name of this species should be rendered as 

 above, to avoid confusion. Hodgson called it the " Sub-himalayan Finch ; " 

 but by giving it the unusual name of subhimachalus and afterwards that of 

 subhemachalaua, it is not. surprising that subsequent 'writers mistook the origin 

 of the specific name, and reduced it to subhcmalacha or subhimachalana. To 

 his original drawing he has attached the name subhemalaycnsk, and as this 

 best expresses the specific signification, I propose to retain it, instead of the 

 other ones, whicli are apparently varied readings of a misprint. 



