218 FRINGILLIDJE. 



Coloration. Male. Upper plumage dark crim son-brown, the 

 centres of the feathers darker ; lower back streaked with rosy ; 

 rump-feathers broadly tipped rosy ; wings and tail dark brown, 

 every feather margined with crimson-brown ; median coverts with 

 a rosy tip ; greater coverts and tertiaries with a rosy tip to the 

 outer web only; a very broad supercilium pale shining rosy ; sides 

 of the head and neck crimson-brown ; lower plumage rosy red, the 

 crimson-brown bases of the feathers everywhere visible, the 

 leathers of the throat pointed and tipped with pale shining rosy. 



Female. The whole upper plumage olive-brown, tinged with 

 ochraceous and closely streaked with blackish ; wing and tail dark 

 brown, the median and greater coverts tipped with ochraceous, the 

 tertiaries with a long oblique patch of ochraceous ou the outer 

 web ; all the quills and the tail margined with olive-brown ; a 

 broad ochraceous-buff supercilium ; lores and ear-coverts blackish ; 

 the whole lower plumage ochraceous buff, streaked with dark bi*own. 



Bill horny-brown ; legs pale brown ; iris brown (Jerdon). 



Length nearly 7 ; tail 2-9 ; wing 3*3 ; tarsus *9 ; bill from 

 gape *6. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Garhwal to Sikhim. 



7G0. Propasser edwardsi. EdiuarcUs Rose-Finch. 



Carpodacus edwardsii, Verr. Nouv. Arch. Mus. vi, Bidl. p. 39 (1870), 

 vn,Bull. p. 58, viii, Bull, pi. 3, fig. 4 ; Sharpe, Cat, B. M. xii, p. 418. 



Propasser saturatus, Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 108, pi. viii 

 (1872) ; id. Ibis, 1873, p. 218; Hume, S. F. i, p. 418. 



Propasser edwardsi ( Verr.), Htnne, S. F. vii, p. 415 ; id. Cat. no. 

 744 bis.^ 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, and nape dull crimson, with 

 black shaft-streaks ; a broad supercilium, cheeks, chin, and throat 

 rosy pink, with clashes of the same on the forehead ; lores and sides 

 of the head dull crimson ; back, rump, scapulars, and upper tail- 

 coverts brown washed with crimson, the back and scapulars 

 with broad black streaks ; wing-coverts, quills, and tail blackish 

 margined with reddish brown, the coverts and tertiaries also tipped 

 with pale rosy ; breast dark rosy red, with black shaft-streaks ; 

 remainder of lower parts pink, with black shaft-streaks. 



Female. Similar to the female of C. rhodojiejolus, from which it 

 can only be separated by its slightly shorter tail, measuring about 

 2-6 (whereas in the other species the tail measures quite 2 - 8); by 

 the colour of the lores and ear-coverts, which are brown mottled 

 with buff (not black) ; and by the less distinct supercilium. 



Length about 6*5 ; tail 2-7 ; wing 3-1 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from 

 gape *58. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Nepal to Bhutan, extending to 

 the mountains of Western China. This species occurs at high 

 levels, Mandelli having procured it at 10,000 feet. 



