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in the centrai region, wliere indeed it is commoner than in the north- 

 em ; and one of the roseate Finches is very common below in the 

 winter, under the name of the Tooti or Surkha Tooti. This I believe 

 is the Hoemorhous rosea and Coccothraustes rosea of authors : it is an 

 anomalous or osculant form, \vhich cannot I think be referred to any 

 known genus. I call it Pyrrhulinota, because it unites a semi- 

 pyrrhuhne bill w'ith the wings, tail and feet of Linaria and Limta. 



Genus Pyrrhulinota, mihi. 



Bill Pyrrhulo-Linarian ; -tt'ings long and pointed, with the first ąuill 

 usually longest ; tail deeply forked ; tarse rather shorter than the mid- 

 toe and nail ; toes long, laterals uneąual, centrai long, hind least, but 

 with the nail eąual to the inner fore ; nails simple. 



Type, the common Tooti or Surkha Tooti of Hindostan ; Cocco- 

 thraustes roseata of Vieillot ? P. roseata, mihi. 



The other two rosy Finches of the hills are much less known be- 

 ]ow, though they also are found there, in the hands of dealers at 

 least, and are called TOithout distinction Goolabi Tooti. They are 

 the Fringilla rhodopepla and rhodochroa of Vigors, apud Gould ; but 

 they are not I think true Fringilla, but nearer to Passer. I deno- 

 minate them 



Fhingillin.*;. 

 Genus Propasser. 



Bill Passerine, with the culmen and gonys more or less eurved or 

 straight, and the tip distinctly notched ; wings short, first ąuill less 

 than three next, and longest ; tail forked ; legs and feet ambulant ; 

 tarse longer than mid-toe ; toes compressed, laterals eąual, centrai 

 long, hind least ; nails simple. Types, rhodochroa and rhodopepla. 



We have in the northern region chiefly t\vo species of true Bull- 

 finch or Erythrocephala, Gould, and Nipalensis, mihi, to which we 

 mušt add a third species, styled epauletta by me, but which deviates 

 too much from the typical form to remain under Pyrrhula ; I separate 

 it as a new type, by the name of 



Pyrrhoplectes . 



Bill Pyrrhuline, but longer and less tumid, with the upper mandi- 

 ble subterminally, and the lower subcentrally notched ; the gape 

 angulated ; wings shorter and more gradate than in Pyrrhula, -vvith 

 the fourth ąuill commonly longest ; tail even or divaricated, not 

 forked ; legs and feet slenderer, longer, and more suited to action on 

 the ground than in Pyrrhula. Type, Pyrrhula epauletta, As. Trans. 

 vol. xix. 



Propyrrhula Rubeculoides , mihi. — Above, together with the lower 

 breast, belly and vent, smoky brown ; face as far back as the eye, 

 chin, throat and breast, bright red, of a sanguineous scarlet hue ; 

 bill dusky horn, paler belovv ; legs dusky. Female fulvous, belovv 

 with large centrai dashes of dusky brown, and the croup the šame. 



