398 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



dark brown ; primaries and secondaries brown, edged \A'itli pale 

 brown. 



Bill with the upper mandible dark brown, lower one fleshy horn 

 colour ; feet dark brown. Length about 8^ inches ; wing 4f ; 

 tail 4 ; tarsus 1. 



Latham states that this fine species chiefly occurs in the colder 

 parts of the Caucasian ]\Iountains, feeding principally on the 

 berries of the Sea Buckthorn, Hlppophae rhamnoides ; that it is 

 frequently seen in large flocks, and that its note is not unlike that 

 of a Bull-finch. It has only been obtained, in Lidia, in the far 

 N. W. Himalayas, Mr. Blyth having received one from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Find Dadun-khan, and it has also been found in Cash- 

 mere. It varies much in the brightness of its plumage, according 

 to the season. It is probably this species which Adams alludes 

 to in his Birds of Cashmere, No. 68, as being like Carp, 

 erythrinf/s, but larger, and of a brighter red, and only seen in 

 flocks, high up near the snow. 



738. Carpodacus erythrinus, Pallas. 



Loxia, apud Pallas, Zoog. Ross. As. pi. 36 — Blyth, Cat. 

 658— HoRSF., Cat. 686— Gould, Birds of Europe, pi 206— 

 Hoemorrhous roseus, apud Jeudon, Cat. 195 — C. roseus, apud 

 Adams, Birds of Cashmere, No. 67 — L. totta, Gmelin — Pyrrhuli- 

 nota roseata, Hodgson — 7^-uti, H. — Amonga tuti, in Nepal — Chota 

 tuti in Sylhet — Phulin-pho^ Lepch. — Yedru-pichike, or Yedru-ji- 

 now ay i, Tel. 



The C0M3I0N Rose-finch. 



Descr. — Male, in winter plumage, has the head, throat, breast, 

 moustachial stripe, rump, and flanks of the abdomen, roseate color, 

 deepest upon the crown, throat, and breast, and paling on the 

 flanks ; upper plumage generally brown, more or less ruddy, 

 brightening towards the rump and on the upper tail-coverts ; the 

 wing-coverts tipped with ruddy brown, forming two pale bars on 

 the wings ; tertiaries margined with pale brown ; cpiills and tail- 

 feathers with ruddy edgings. In summer tlie crown, throat, 

 breast, and rump become brilliant crimson. The female is pale 



