ERYTHROSPIZA. 307 



Crown of the head black, forming a cap, the feathers of the forehead 

 minutely tipped with rosy; lores and feathers round the eye bright rosy; 

 eyebrow a little paler rosy, sandy brown posteriorly ; ear coverts, cheeks and 

 throat sandy brown with black streaks along the shafts, forming large spots 

 on the foreneck ; upper surface of the body chocolate brown ; the mantle and 

 tipper back mottled with blackish ; lower back sandy brown ; rump and upper 

 tail coverts rosy, the longer feathers of the latter black, edged with rosy ; 

 median and greater wing coverts brown, edged with rosy ; primary coverts and 

 quills black, edged with bright rosy ; secondaries narrowly tipped with white, 

 all the quills with white concealed bases ; outer tail feathers white, with 

 black shafts ; centre feathers black, edged with rosy, their bases white ; under 

 surface of the body creamy white, tinged with rosy, the abdominal region a 

 little paler ; sides of the body sandy brown with narrow central streaks of 

 brown; axillaries white, edged with rosy. (Sharped) Bill yellow, dusky 

 towards the tip of the upper mandible ; claws and feet blackish. 



Length. 6 to 6'2 inches; wing 4*1 ; tail 2'2 ; tarsus 0*75 ; culmen O'55. 



The adult female is duller than the male ; the crown is obscured with sandy 

 brown edges ; the wing is less rosy in colour ; the base of the secondaries 

 conspicuously white. 



Length. 6 '2 inches. 



Hab, Yarkand through Persia to the Caucasus and Eastern Asia Minor, 

 reaching to Arabia. A single specimen only of this species was got on the 

 Upper Sind Frontier by Mr. Charles Hutchins during the winter of 1885. 



Gen. Erythrospiza. Bp. 



Bill scarcely bulged, more sparrowlike ; culmen and gonys slightly curved, 

 the depth at base nearly equal to the length ; commissure scarcely sinuated. 



829. Erythrospiza githaginea (Licht.}, Bp. Faun. Ital. pi. 35, 



fig. 3; Dresser* B. Eur. p. 85, pi. 196; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. 

 p. 64; Butler, t. c. p. 284; Hume, t.c. p. 454; id. Str. F. 1879, P- IO ^- 

 Fringilla githaginea, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24. Pyrrhula githaginea, 

 Temm. PL Col. iii. pi. 400 ; Hume, Ibis, 1872, p. 468. Carpodacus cras- 

 sirostris, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 476. Bucanetes githagineus, Cab. Mus, 

 Hein. Th. i. p, 164; Hume, Str. F. 1878, p. 210; Blanf., East. Pers. ii. 

 p. 250; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind. p. 190. Propasser githaginea, Jerd., 

 B. Ind. ii. p. 404. The TRUMPETER BULL-FINCH. 



In the male the head is pale bluish grey, the feathers tipped brown ; the 

 chin, throat, breast, cheeks, and ear coverts a sort of blue grey, the feathers 

 faintly tinged, most conspicuously so round the base of the lower mandible, 

 with pale rosy ; the abdomen, vent, and lower tail coverts very pale rosy white, 

 the longest of the latter with dark shafts ; the back and scapulars dull earthy 

 brown, with, when fresh, a faint rosy tinge, which disappears in the dried skin. 



