on Dr. Jerdon's 'Birds of India.' 43 



722. EuspiZA LUTEOLA (SpaiTm.) ; Gray and Mitchell, 111. 

 Gen. Birds, pi. 91. 



723. EuspiZA AUREOLA (Pall.) ; Emheriza aureola, Middeud. 

 Sib. Reisf, tab. xiii. tig. 9 [ovum) ; Radde, Reisen, taf. iv. 

 fig. 2, a-h. 



726. Hesperiphona affinis. 



The male of this species is tigurcd in one of Mr. Hodgson's 

 drawings as H. iderioides ; and the lower figure in Mr. Gould's 

 plate (B. As. pt. iii.) evidently represents a female of H. affinis, 

 but with an ashy hood ; while the upper figure behind that of 

 the male represents the female of H. iderioides. A second 

 American species of this genus, akin to H, vespertinus, is Cocco- 

 thraustes abeillii, Lesson; C. maculipennis, Sclater (P. Z. S. 1860, 

 p. 251, Aves, pi. clxiii.), from Mexico {cf. Ibis, 1866, p. 206). 



727. Mycerobas melanoxanthus (Hodgson) ; Gray and 

 Mitchell, 111. Gen. Birds, pi. Ixxxviii. 



Of Mr. Gould's two figures (B. As. pt. iii.) with spotted 

 underparts, I believe that the yellower example represents the 

 immature plumage, and the paler that of the mature female. 



730. Pyrrhula erythaca, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xxxii. p. 459, 

 and Ibis, 1863, pi. x. p. 440. 



The tail in the figure just cited is wrongly represented, as it 

 exactly resembles in shape that of P. nipalensis. 



734. LoXIA HIMALAYAN a. 



A White- winged Crossbill has also been received from the 

 Himalaya, which Bonaparte and Schlegel (Mon. des Loxiens, 

 pi. 10) refer to the North American L. leucoptera, Gm., and 

 not to the North Asiatic L. hifasciata, Nilsson. Mr. Gould, 

 however (in his ' Birds of Great Britain, pt. v.), assigns it to 

 the latter race, and remarks that it is doubtless the Amurian 

 L. leucoptera of Von Schrenck. The distinctions between the 

 two birds were well pointed out by M. de Selys-Longchamps 

 some five-and-twenty years since (Faune Beige, p. 77). 



735. H^matospiza sipahi (Hodgs.) ; Bp. et Schl. Mon. 

 Loxiens, pi. 26. 



