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Gen. Pringilla- Lin. 



Bill a lengthened cone ; upper mandible slightly notched near the tip ; 

 wings with the first four primaries nearly equal ; tail emarginate. 



813. Pringilla montifringilla (Linn.), Gould, B. Eur. pi. 188; 



Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 412; Sir. F. vii. p. 465; id. 1879, P- lo8 J Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 179. The MOUNTAIN FINCH. 



Head, lores, cheeks, sides of neck, back and rump dark brown, the feathers 

 of the latter with pale edges ; lesser wing coverts rufous, margined with 

 white ; median coverts the same ; quills with a white spot ; tail black, edged 

 with brownish yellow, the outermost on each side edged at the base with 

 white ; chin, throat, breast and flanks rufous ; abdomen cinereous or ashy 

 grey. In the winter plumage the back is black, and the feathers of the upper 

 surface are edged with rufous ; rump pure white ; sides of the head and nape 

 greyish white. 



The female differs in having the head grey ; and the breast not so rufous 

 as in the male. Bill horny brown ; legs fleshy ; irides dark hazel. 

 Length. 6 to 6-3 inches ; wing 375 ; tail 2-5. 



Hab. The Himalayas, in the North-West during winter. Jerdon says it 

 has been obtained in Simla and Afghanistan, and that Hutton observed it at 

 Mussoorie as a rare winter visitant in flocks of Propasser rhodochrous. In 

 the Hume collection it is recorded from Kandahar and the Abbottabad 

 Valley, 



Gen. Procarduelis. Hodgs. 



Bill longer and more slender than in either Propasser or Pyrrhospiza ; 

 2nd, 3rd and 4th primaries subequal ; 1st a little shorter. 



814. Procarduelis nipalensis, Hodgs., y. A. S. B. xii. p. 955; 



id., As. Res. xix. 157; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 405, No. 746; Hume, Sir. F. 

 1879, p. 108. Linota saturata, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 192 ; Reid, Cat. B. 

 Lucknow, Prov. Mus. p. 136. The DARK ROSE FINCH. 



Forehead, a line over the eye to the occiput, chin, throat and abdomen pure 

 blossom-red ; neck and breast sooty brown, tinted with dark sanguineous 

 blossom red ; above sooty black washed with deep vinous ; crown of head the 

 same ; quills and tail the same, but tinted on the margins only with the 

 sanguineous hue of the back. Bill brown ; irides red brown j legs fleshy 

 brown. 



Length. -6*5 to 7 inches; wing 3*9; tail 2*75. 



The female is olive brown above ; from the chin to the breast dirty 

 yellowish ; breast to tail white ; wings dusky brown ; wing coverts and tertia- 

 rjes externally margined and tipped with dirty yellowish. 



