216 fringillidjE. 



eye, the lores, cheeks, chin, and throat dull dark crimson, the 

 feathers dusky at their bases ; the ear-coverts and sides of the neck 

 like the back, but more broadly margined with very pale brown ; 

 the wings, tail, and upper tail-coverts hair-brown ; the feathers with 

 an excessively narrow pale brown margin, and the median coverts 

 rather more broadly tipped with pale brownish pink ; the rump 

 pale rose-colour ; breast, abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts pale 

 rose-colour, paling towards the lower tail-coverts, each feather 

 dusky at the base and with brown shafts or narrow brown shaft- 

 stripes." 



Female. The specimens in the British Museum labelled as females 

 of this species are absolutely inseparable from the females of P. 

 pulcherrimus both as regards size and colour. 



Length 5*5 to 6 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 3 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from 

 gape *5. 



Distribution. The only male of this species known was obtained 

 in the valley of the Bhaghirati river in Garhwal. Females, pre- 

 sumably of this species, have been obtained at Sulci and Darali in 

 the same valley. Sharpe identifies with this species two females 

 obtained by Hodgson in Nepal, but I cannot separate them from 

 other females ascribed to P. pirfcherrimus and also obtained by 

 Hodgson in Nepal. 



757. Propasser grandis. The Bed-mantled Rose-Finch. 



Carpodacus grandis, Bh/th, J. A. S. B. xviii, p. 810 (1840) ; id, Cat. 



p. 342 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 404. 

 Propasser rliodochlarnys {Brandt), apudHorsf. fy M. Cat. ii. p. 458; 



Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 401 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. GO ; 



Hume fy Headers. Bah. to York. p. 259 ; Hume, Cat. no. 741 ; 



Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 84; Sadly, Ibis, 1881, p. 578. 



Coloration. Male. The whole upper plumage and the visible 

 portions of the closed wings and tail rosy brown, becoming pure 

 rosy on the rump ; the feathers of the head and back with dark 

 brown streaks ; supercilium, sides of head, chin, and throat pale 

 shining rosy, the feathers all pointed; lores and a band behind the 

 eye reddish brown ; lower plumage rosy red ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries rosy white. 



Female. Upper plumage ashy brown, streaked darker everywhere ; 

 the lower plumage ashy white, streaked with dark brown ; wings 

 and tail brown, the feathers with paler margins ; an indistinct 

 supercilium pale buff mottled with brown. 



Iris light brown ; bill greyish brown, the lower mandible albes- 

 cent; legs pinkish carneous brown (Wardlaiv Eamsay). 



Length about 7 ; tail 3*1 ; wing 3*6 ; tarsus *8 ; bill from gape 

 •65. 



This species differs from the true P. rhodochlami/s, Brandt, in 

 having no rosy plumes on the forehead. 



Distribution. The whole Himalayas from Afghanistan and Gilgit 

 eastwards to Garhwal and Kumaun. In the British Museum 



