190 FRINGlLLID^i. 



Gen. Bucanetes.— Oa6. 

 Bucanetes githagineus, Lkht. P. C- 400 ; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 



208 ; Bp. Lox. t. 33; Ve.scr.de'l Eyypte, t. 5-8 ; Gray, Handlist B. No. 

 7523, p. 102 ; Blf. East. Pers. ii. p. 250; Hume, Str. F. i. p. 210; vii. 

 64, 454 ; Murray, Hdblc, ZooL, S,-c., Sind, p. 183. Carpodacus crassiros- 

 tris, BhjtJi, J. A. 8. B. xvi. 1847, p. 47G. — The Desert Bulfinch. 



" In the Male the head is pale bluish grey, the feathers tipped 

 brown; the chin, throat, breast, cheeks, and ear-coverts a sort of blue 

 grey, the feathers faintly tinged, most conspicuously so round the base 

 of the lower mandible, with pale rosy; the abdomen, vent, and lower 

 tail-coverts very pale rosy white, the longest of the latter with dark 

 shafts; the back and scapulars dull earthy brown, with, when fresh, a 

 faint rosy tinge, which disappears in the dried skin, and somewhat 

 greyer towards the nape ; rump pale brown, more decidedly tinged with 

 rosy ; the visible portion of upper tail-coverts rosy white, more 

 strongly tinged with rosy at the margins, the centres and bases of the 

 longest being pale brown ; these however are not seen till the feathers 

 are lifted ; tail feathers dark brown, conspicuously, though narrowly, 

 margined with rosy white, most rosy towards the bases of the 

 lateral feathers; the wings hair-brown, conspicuously margined and 

 tipped with pale rose colour, or rosy white ; the coverts, secondaries, 

 and tertiaries most broadly so. There is a very narrow, inconspicuous, 

 pale rosy frontal band. The wing lining and axillaries are pure white; 

 the winglet alone is dark brown, unmargiued with rosy. 



" The Female has the whole upper surface and the sides of the head 

 and body a dull pale earthy brown, with only a faint rosy tinge upon 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ; the lower parts a still paler earthy 

 brown with the faintest possible roseate tinge on the breast and becom- 

 ing albescent on the vent, lower tail-coverts and tibial plumes ; the 

 wings and tail are as in the male; but the margins are narrower and 

 less conspicuous, and are pale brownish instead of rosy white. 



" Both /Sexes.— Bill at front 0-35 to 0'41 ; tarsus 0-67 to 0'77. The 

 irides are brown ; the legs and feet fleshy brown; claws dusky; soles 

 whitish ; the bill orange yellow, in some probably less mature, pale 

 yellow, brownish on upper mandible. 



''Male, Length. — 5" 7 to 6 inches, expanse 10 to 10*7, tail from vent 2*1 

 to 3, wing 3'3 to3-6, wings, when closed, reach to within 0*7 of end of tail. 



''Female, Length. — 5*7 to 5*8 inches, expanse 10'5 to 11*1, tail from 

 vent 1*8 to 2. wings 3*2 to 3*4, wings, when closed, reach to within 

 0-6 to 0-8 of end of tail."— (ifawe, Str. F. vi. 210, 211.) 



Hah. — Sind, Punjab, Kutch, and Jodhpore, (Quetta) Beloochistan, 

 Persia and Afghanistan. Winters in India; breeds in Persia and 

 Afghanistan. 



Serinus pectoralis.— /Sp. Nov. 



Male. — A dark brown nearly black streak at the base of the upper 

 mandible, followed by a bright yellow frontal band, extending as a 

 broad supercilium to behind the ear-coverts ; a slaty grey streak 



