274 ALAUDINA. 
Carpodacus erythrinus, Pallas. 
738.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 398; Butler, Guzerat; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 498; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol, 
IX, p. 417; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 1895 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 129. 
THE Common Rose FIncu. 
Length, 5:5 ; wing, 3°25; tail, 2°25. 
Bill yellowish-brown ; irides light-brown ; feet horny-brown. 
Male, in winter plumage, has the head, throat, breast, mous- 
tachial stripe, rump, and flanks of 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-coveris ; the 
wing-coverts tipped with ruddy-brown, forming two pale bars 
on the wing; tertiaries margined with pale-brown; quills and 
tail-feathers with ruddy edgings. In summer the crown, throat, 
breast, and rump become brilliant crimson. 
The female is pale olive-brown with dark streaks, the tips of 
the greater and lesser wing-coverts whitish, forming two con- 
spicuous bands on the wings ; below paler brown, albescent on the 
throat, the middle of the belly and the under tail-coverts, and 
darker and somewhat streaked on the breast and flanks. 
The Rose Finch is found during the winter in all suitable 
localities in the district. -It is partial to hilly forest tracts. 
Sus-ramiLy, Alaudine. 
Bill rather long and slender, short and thick in many ; wings 
broad ; tertiaries elongated, pointed ; claws slightly curved ; hind- 
toe and claw typically long; plumage brown, more or less 
striated. 
Genus, Mirafra, Horsf. 
Bill stout, thick, compressed ; the culmen curved and convex ; 
the tip slightly deflected; commissure gently curving; wings 
rather short ; first quill short, second shorter than third ; fourth, 
fifth, and sixth, which are nearly equal ; tail very short, even ; legs 
rather long ; hind-claw moderately long. 
Mirafra erythroptera, Jerdon. 
756.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 418; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 499; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 418; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 192; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 129. 
THE RED-wWINGED BusH LARK. 
Length, 5°5; wing, 32; tail,2; tarsus, 0°92; bill at front, 
0°4 
F Bill fleshy-horny, dusky on culmen; irides dark-brown ; legs 
eshy. 
