412 General N. M. Prjevalsky 



specks on the nape ; sides of head and throat blackish car- 

 mine'^, with large triangular silvery spots on the throat. 

 The whole body is o£ a reddish-pink colour^ with carmine 

 margins on the back of the neck and back, as well as on the 

 shoulders and upper wing-coverts ; the prevailing colour of 

 these latter is light brown. Tail-feathers^ upper and lower 

 tail-coverts are pink; thighs white; on the hinder flank- 

 feathers a few long blackish bars are noticeable. The fea- 

 thers under the shoulders and the lower wing-coverts are 

 whitCj with pink margins. The primaries are brown, with 

 whitish-red margins^ wider on the hinder ones, which have 

 greyish-white tips. This is also nearly the colour of the 

 shading on the inner webs of the primaries (except their 

 points) and partly of the secondaries. The rectrices are the 

 same colour as the primaries, with whitish-red margins on 

 their outer webs, except the outer pair, which have white 

 margins. 



We only obtained one specimen of this species — a male in 

 summer plumage, much worn, from which the diagnosis has 

 been made. 



This species is named by me in honour of my travel- 

 ling companion and assistant, Lieut. Roborowsky, whose 

 untiring energy was of such great service to the scientific 

 labours of my third and fourth expeditions in Central Asia. 



On all my four journeys in Central Asia, L. rohorowskii 

 was only once met with, on the 1/13 August, 1884, on the 

 pass leading from the plateau of Tibet across the eastern 

 part of the Burkhan-Buddha range. Two or three pairs of 

 these birds at that time kept together with Leucosticte hama- 

 topygia in the highest zone of the alpine region, at a height 

 of 15,000 to 16,000 feet, descending a little to the alpine 

 meadows ; but we only obtained one male bird. We did not 

 hear its note, and in habits and mode of life we found this 

 little bird indistinguishable from L. hcematopygia. 



7. Pykgilauda barbata, sp. n. 

 Notseo rufescente-fulvo, immaculato. Collo postico lateri- 



* Tlie Mack colour appears here, owing to tlie lips of the feathers being 

 so much -worn. 



