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of pale reddish brown round the large end. These five eggs vary 

 in length from O77 to 0-85. and in breadth from 0-59 to 0-61. 

 The eggs were procured in Gilgit, high up the Sind valley. 



762. Carpodacus severtzovi, Sharpe. Severtzoff's Rose-FincJi. 



Carpodacus rubicilla (Gilld.\ Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 397; Hume, Rough 

 Draft N. 8f E. no. 737. 



Dr. Stoliczka gave me a warm lining of a nest, composed chiefly 

 of goat's hair with a little fine vegetable fibre intermingled, and 

 with it a note recorded at the time, stating that this, with the four 

 eggs which it contained, had been found at Ankhang, a camping- 

 ground in the province of Rupshu in West Thibet, at an elevation 

 of 14,000 to 15,000 feet below the Parang Pass, on the 7th July, 

 1865. He was not quite sure what species the eggs belonged to, 

 but he knew it was one of the Rose-Finches, and that he had pre- 

 served one of the parents. Now, the only one of the Rose-Finches 

 whose nest he refers to in his ornithological observations on the 

 Sutlej Valley, published in the Journal Asiatic Society, 1868, 

 p. 60, is that of a species which he identified at the time as 

 Pyrrliospiza punicea. 



He says : " I found the nest made of coarse grass in Rupshu, 

 near the Tsomourie Lake, on the ground in a little bush of 

 Thibetan furze : eggs greenish, with some dark brown spots." 



There can be no doubt that this nest is the one he gave me, but 

 looking to Yon Pelzeln's remarks on Stoliczka's birds (Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 318), it would appear that the birds that betook for Pyrrhospiza 

 punicea were really Carpodacus severtzovi, the specimens of which 

 came from this very Ankhang below the Parang Pass, where the 

 original note, still in the nest, says that it was found, and " one 

 of the parents stuffed." I think, therefore, there can be no 

 reasonable doubt as to the authenticity of the nest or eggs. The 

 nest was doubtlessly made entirely of coarse grass and warmly 

 lined with the lining now in my possession. The eggs are mode- 

 rately elongated ovals, rather pointed towards one end. The shell 

 is smooth and fine, but has only a very slight gloss. The eggs are 

 a pale greenish blue, with a few good-sized spots and many tiny 

 specks of black or blackish brown, confined entirely to the broader 

 half of the eggs. 



The eggs vary from 0'96 to 1-0 in length, and from 0-67 to 0-7 

 in breadth. 



768. Callacanthis burtoni (Gould). The Red-lrowed Finch. 



Callacanthis burtoni (Gould), Jerd. JB. Ind. ii, p. 407 ; Hume, Rough 

 Draft N. # E. no. 748. 



Of the nidification of the Red-browed Finch I know nothing 

 myself. The late Captain Cock remarked : " I observed this 

 bird building in pine-trees at Sonamerg (Cashmere) in June, but 



