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aud wing-coverts dull crimson, each feather with a brown centre ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts bright crimson ; quills and tail brown, 

 margined with reddish. 



Female. Forehead and an indistinct supercilium rather bright 

 yellow ; anterior part of crown yellow, the feathers with dusky 

 centres, becoming ashy on the posterior portion of the crown, and the 

 nape with narrow yellowish margins ; back, scapulars, and wing- 

 coverts bright olive-yellow, the feathers with dusky centres ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts nearly pure olive-yellow ; quills and tail 

 brown, edged with olive-yellow ; sides of the head ashy ; lores, 

 cheeks, and chin pale grey mottled with ashy; throat and sides 

 of neck ashy; breast yellow, with ashy bases to the feathers; 

 remainder of lower parts ashy, paler on the abdomen. 



The young birds resemble the adult female. 



Bill fleshy brown; legs pale brown ; iris hazel-brown (Jerdon). 



Lengtli about 8 ; tail 3-2; wing 3*8; tarsus "8; bill from gape *6. 



Distribution. Nepal; Sikhim; Manipur. 



Habits, (j-c. Jerdon states that be found this species near Dar- 

 jeeling, frequenting the more open parts of the woods in small 

 parties. 



Genus PYRRHOSPIZA, Hodgs., 1844. 



The genus Pgrrhospiza approaches the Rose-Finches still more 

 than the preceding genus does, but differs in the male having the 

 abdomen brown, streaked with black. The female is absolutely 

 like the females of the Rose-Finches aud has no green whatever in 

 the plumage. In structure Pyrrhospiza resembles Projayrrhula, 

 but in the former the bill is rather more slender and longer. 



753. Pyrrhospiza punicea. The Red-breasted Rose-Finch. 



Pyrrhospiza punicea, Hodgs. Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xiii, p. 953 (1844) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 121 ; Horsf. §■ M. Cat. ii, p. 461 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, 

 p. 406 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 8. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 60 ; Blanf. J. A. 8. B. 

 xli, pt. ii, p. 66 ; Hume, Cat. no. 747 ; 8harpe, Cat. B. M. xii, 

 p. 431 ; Oates in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd eel. ii, p. 152. 



? Pyrrhospiza humii, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 433. 



The Large Red-breasted Finch, Jerd. 



Fig. 58. — Head of P. punicea. 



Coloration. Male. The forehead and a broad but short super- 

 cilium crimson, each feather tipped with black or dusky ; crown, 



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