FRINGILLIDA—ROSE-FINCH. gl 
margins, sometimes with rose-colour ; under tail-coverts nearly 
white ; bill yellowish-brown; legs, feet and irides brown. 
Length 5°5 inches; culmen 0°43; wing 3°2 to 3°3; tail 2°4; 
tarsus 0°7. 
Adult Female: Prevailing colour above dull olive-brown, 
wings and tail dark brown ; margins of innermost secondaries 
and tips of coverts whitish, or very pale brown; beneath 
brownish-white, mottled about chest with brown. 
Immature birds: Similar to adult female, but pale edges 
to back feathers yellower; margins of secondaries paler and 
broader, more generally streaked with brown beneath. 
Distribution: Breeds in Northern Russia, across Northern 
Siberia, also in the Caucasus and Asia Minor, wintering in 
India. Occurs casually in many European countries on migra- 
tion. 
Habitat : Groves in marshy localities, or gardens. Plains 
in winter. 
CAUCASIAN ROSE-FINCH. 
Carpodacus rubicillus (Gii/d). 
Adult Male: Crown and sides of head scarlet, on latter 
glossed with silvery-grey; back, scapulars and wing-coverts 
brown, washed with deep rose ; wings and tail dark brown, the 
former rosy-tinged and both with pale margins ; rump deep 
rose; throat and dveast scarlet, conspicuously spotted with 
stlvery-white ; bill light horn, yellowish at base beneath ; legs 
and feet blackish-brown; irides dark brown. Length 7°75 
inches ; culmen 0°55; weg 4.5; tail 3°75. 
Adult Female: Prevailing colour above dirty brown, head 
with a yellowish tinge, wing and tail feathers edged with light 
ashy-brown ; beneath ashy-buff with yellowish tinge, becoming 
buffish-white on under tail-coverts ; feathers of head and breast 
showing dark centres. . 
Immature birds: General colour pale earthy-brown, yel- 
lowish inplaces, paler on abdomen; rectrices externally margined 
with yellowish or white. 
Distribution: Resident in the Caucasus, ranging eastward 
into Northern India. 
Habitat: Mountain sides, in the vicinity of streams. 
