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730. Pyrrhula erithacus. Red-breasted Bullfinch. 



I came across a flock of this new species on my way up Mount 

 Tongloo in April 1862. There were two males and several 

 females picking about the bushes near the path. The females 

 all escaped, but I secured both the males, though one was too 

 much damaged to preserve; the other I sent to Mr. Blyth, who 

 described it in ' The Ibis' for 186.2 (pp. 389, 390), and in the 

 following year furnished its portrait (Ibis, 1863, pi. x). This 

 was the only occasion on which I observed the species. The 

 elevation was about 9000 feet. 



731. Pyrrhula nipalensis. Brown Bullfinch. 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. Tliree specimens. 



733. Pyrrhoplectes epauletta, Hodg. Gold-headed Black 

 Bullfinch. 



Darjeeling collection, 1862. One specimen. 



735. H^^MATospizA siPAHi. Scarlet Grosbeak. 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. Two specimens. 



738. Carpodacus erythrinus. Common Hose Finch. 



Darjeeling collection, 1862. Four specimens. In September 

 1866 I observed it abundantly about Simla, but was unable to 

 procure any specimens. 



740. Propasser thura. White-browed Rose Finch. 



About a mile from the summit of Mount Tongloo, in 

 1862, where they associate in flocks, I procured specimens of 

 this handsome bird, which was at first supposed by Mr. Blyth 

 to be a new species, P. frontalis (J. A. S. B. 1863, p. 458); but 

 he has since (Ibis, 1867, p. 44) referred it to P. thura. 



746. Procarduelis nipalensis, Hodg. Dark Rose Finch. 

 Darjeeling collection, 1862. One specimen. 



750. Chrysomitris spinoides. Himalayan Siskin. 



I came across this elegant little Finch for the first time at 

 Simla, in the summer of 1866, and was so much attracted by 

 its sprightly manners and lively notes, that I immediately manu- 

 factured a pair of clap-nets, borrowed a call-bird (which had 

 been knocked down by a soldier at Dugshaie with a stone, and 



