220 



FKINGILLIDiE. 



6. East Pru«>ia, 2bth June. W. Raddifle Saunders, Esq. 



3. Moscow, Iiussia, loth June. Salviii-GodmaTi Coll. 

 5- Moscow, 3Uth May. Crowle}' Bequest. 



•i. Moscow, 7tii June (Lorcuz). Seebohm Coll. 



1. iSibeiia. Crowley liequest. 



4. Darasuu, Dauria, S. Siberia, June Seebohm Coll. 



(Di/boifski). 



4. Darasun {Bi/bowski). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Darasuu, June {Dybotvski: Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 



5. Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, . Tune (5.76o;-i). Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Krasnoyar.sli, June (Kibort). Seebohm Coll. 



Carpodacus roseatus (Hodgs.). 



Carpodacus erythrinus, Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 83 ; Oates, Fauna Brit. 



Ind., Birds, ii. p. 219 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, A'ests c^ Bff(/s Ind. 



Birds, ii. p. 153 (1890). 

 Cai-podacus erythrina roseata, Hartert, Voa. Pal. Faun. pt. i. p. 108 



(1903). 

 Carpodacus roseatus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 263 (1908). 



Pive eggs of Hodgson's Rose-Finch are indistinguishable from 

 those of C. erifthrinus. They measure from -73 to "S in length, 

 and from -51 to -oS in breadth. 



2. Altai Mountains, Central Asia. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Altai Mountains. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Cilgit, Kashmir, 10,000 ft., July Hume Coll. 

 {J. Bidduljih). 



Carpodacus severtzovi, Sharpe. 

 (Plate X. fig. 11.) 



Pyrrhospiza puuicea, Stoliczka (tiec Hodgs.), J. A. S. B. xxxvii. pt. ii. 



p. 60 (1868). 

 Carpodacus rubicilla, Pekeln (nee Giildenst.), Ibis, 1868, p. 318. 

 Carpodacus se-vertzovi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 400 (1888) ; Oates, 



Fauna Brit, hid., Birds, ii. p. 220 (1890); id,ed. Hume, Nests i^- 



Byys Ind. Birds, ii. p. 154 (1890) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. 



p. 319 (1902); id., Ibis, 1904, p. 107, pi. iii. tigs. 1 &3; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 264 (1908). 

 Carpodacus rubricilla severtzovi, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. i. p. 100 

 '(19U3). 



Mr. Hume has shown (I. c.) that there can be no doubt about 

 the authenticity ot the eggs of Severtzoif's Eose-Pinch found by 

 l)r. Stoliczka in Western Tibet. 



These eggs are of a broad pointed oval form and jiossess a small 

 amount ot gloss. They are blue, sparingly spotted and speckled, 

 almost entirel}- at the broad end, with deep black. They measure 

 respectively : -9.5 by -69 ; 1 by -OS ; 1 by -09 ; -98 by •?. 



4. Ankhang, Province of Rupshu, Hume Coll. 

 West Tibet, 14,000-15,000 feet. 

 7th July [F. Stoliczka). 



