802 FRINGILLID/E. 



The female is dull greenish above, the feathers washed with yellow and 

 streaked mesially with dusky ; median and greater coverts dusky blackish ; 

 broadly tipped with greenish yellow, and forming a double wing bar, otherwise 

 as in the male. 



Sides of the breast, sides of the body and flanks broadly streaked with dark 

 brown; thighs ashy ; under tail coverts yellow, white at tip and streaked with 

 black. 



Length. 4-5 to 5 inches ; wing 275 ; tail r6; tarsus O'S ; culmen 0-4. 



Hab. Sikkim ; Himalaya Mountains. 



Gen. CallacanthiS- Reich, 



Bill shorter than in Chrysomitris ; wing does not reach to the end of the tail, 

 otherwise as in Chrysomitris. 



819. CallacanthiS burtoni, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 90; id. B. 



of Asia, pt. I, pi. 15. Fringilla burtoni, Gray and Mitch., Gen. B. ii. p. 371. 

 Fringilla erythrophrys, Blyth* J. A. S. B. xv. p. 38. CallacanthiS burtoni, 

 (Gould), Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 407. The RED-BROWED FINCH. 



Crown of the head, ear coverts, wings and tail brownish black ; forehead, 

 supercilium, chin and throat crimson ; upper suface of the body ruddy brown, 

 deeper on the rump and upper tail coverts ; wings Jprown, marked with white 

 on the primary and greater coverts, also on the secondaries ; outermost tail 

 feathers mostly white towards the tip ; the rest, except the middle pair, tipped 

 with white. In summer the under surface of the body becomes crimson. Bill 

 yellow ; legs light brown. 



Length. 7 inches ; wing 3-9 ; tail 2'6. 



The female is plain brown above, darker on the crown ; supercilium saffron 

 yellow ; forehead ochreous ; back yellowish brown ; the under surface of the 

 body tinged with fulvous. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas, Simla, Kotegurh. 



Gen. AcanthiS- Bechst. 



General characters of Chrysomitris, claws larger, and equal to the toe. 



820. Acanthis brevirostris, Bp. Consp. List B. Eur. and N. 



Amer.p.34; Moore, P, Z. S. 1855, p. 216. Linaria brevirostris, Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1879, p. 108; id. Sir. F. vii. p. 417. The SHORT-BILLED LINNET. 



General colour above brown, the feathers blackish in the centre and streaked 

 with white ; lower back and rump rosy pifik ; lesser and median coverts 

 reddish brown ; greater coverts blackish, edged with brown and tipped with 

 white ; quills black, externally margined with white ; head like the back, and 

 similarly streaked ; lores, and a broad line over the eye, also the ear coverts, 

 cheeks and throat creamy buff ; foreneck and breast ashy whitish, with broad 

 blackish brown centres to the feathers ; lower breast and abdomen pure white, 

 also the under wing coverts and axillaries ; legs and feet brown, claws dusky ; 

 iris brown. 



