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Above dark crimson or ruddy brown with dusky or blackish median streaks ; 

 supercilium pale glistening roseate ; rump and the tips of the wing coverts and 

 tertiaries vinaceous rosy pink; throat, breast and under surface of the body 

 dull vinous rosy. 



The female is deep brown above with paler margins to the feathers ; under 

 surface of the body light yellowish brown with dark central lines ; a broad 

 pale supercilium and another pale line from the lower mandible. Bill horny 

 brown ; legs pale brown ; irides brown. 



Length. 675 ; wing 3*25 ; tail 2-75. 



Hab. Himalayas. Found at Mussoorie, and also in Nepaul and Sikkim. 



847. Carpodacus Edwardsii, Verr., N. Arch. Mus. vi. Bull 



p. 39; id, vii. p. 58; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 418. Propasser 

 saturatus, Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli. p. 168 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1873, p. 180. 

 Propasser Edwardsii, David et. Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 355 -,Hume, S/r. F. 1878, 

 vol. ii. p. 415 ; id. Sir. F. 1879, p. 108. EDWARD'S ROSEFINCH. 



Above ruddy brown washed with crimson, the mantle and back streaked 

 with dusky blackish centres to the feathers ; rump and upper tail coverts 

 more uniform; lesser wing coverts ruddy brown ; .median and greater series 

 dusky, edged with ruddy brown, and tipped with pale rosy, forming a double 

 wing bar ; bastard wing, primary coverts and quills dusky brown, edged with 

 ruddy brown, more rosy on the primaries; the inner secondaries tipped with 

 rosy ; tail dusky brown, edged with ruddy brown ; crown of head dull crimson 

 with longitudinal dusky centres ; base of forehead varied with rosy tips to 

 the feathers, this being continued over the eye, forming a supercilium ; lores, 

 feathers round the eye and upper part of ear coverts dark crimson, the 

 remainder of ear coverts, sides and cheeks rosy, the feathers tipped 

 with pearly rose colour ; throat like the cheeks ; foreneck and breast dark 

 crimson with dusky shaft lines ; lower breast and abdomen washed with rosy, 

 the latter with dusky shaft lines ; sides of body and flanks brown, washed with 

 crimson ; thighs brown ; under tail coverts brown, washed with rosy and with 

 dusky shaft lines - r under wing coverts and axillaries dark ochreous brown, 

 washed with crimson. {Sharped) Bill brown, the lower mandible greyish ; feet 

 reddish grey ; iris reddish chestnut. (A. David.) 



Length. 5*5 inches ; wing 3 ; tail 2-25 ; tarsus Cr8 ; culmen 0-5. 



The adult female is dark ochreous brown above, streaked with dusky brown ; 

 head the same ; rump and upper tail coverts nearly uniform ; lesser coverts 

 dull ochreous brown ; median and greater coverts dusky, edged externally 

 with pale ochreous, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard wing and primary 

 coverts blackish, edged with ashy ochreous ; quills dusky brown, edged with 

 pale ochreous ; lores ashy ; eyebrow and eyelid ochreous buff ; ear coverts 

 dark brown ; cheeks ochreous buff, streaked with dark brown ; under surface 

 of the body ochreous buff, broadly streaked with black on the throat, narrowly 

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