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on the foreneck and breast ; abdomen clear ochreous buff, with obsolete 

 dusky shaft lines ; sides of the body and flanks dark ochreous brown ; under 

 tail coverts pale ochreous with lighter margins and dusky centres ; under 

 wing coverts and axillaries pale ochreous with dusky bases. 



Length. 5-5 inches ; wing 3*1 ; tail 2-3 ; tarsus o'9; culmen 0-55. 



Hab. The Himalayas from Nepaul to Bhootan. Recorded from Sikkim 

 and Darjeeling. 



848- CarpodaCUS ttiura, Bp. and Schleg. Monog. Lox. pi. 23. 

 Propasser thura, Jerd., B. 2nd. ii. p. 400, No. 740 ; Hume, Sir. F. i. p. 15 ; 

 id., Sir. F. vii. p. 459. The WHITE-BROWED ROSEFINCH. 



Similar to P. rhodopeplus ; differs in the male being hair-brown above 

 centred with blackish ; rump rose color ; only the lesser wing coverts tipped 

 with pale crimson: end of the superciliary streak and the centre of the 

 belly pure white ; bastard wing, primary coverts and quills blackish, edged 

 with dull rosy ; secondaries edged with creamy white like the greater 

 coverts ; crown of head like the back ; forehead rosy, extending back in a 

 line over the eye as an eyebrow ; feathers round the eye and a broad streak 

 above the ear coverts dark brown ; ear coverts, cheeks and throat rose 

 colour ; under surface of the body rosy, the foreneck streaked with pearly 

 white ; lower abdomen white; sides of the body and flanks brown streaked with 

 black ; under tail coverts rosy ; under wing coverts and axillaries greyish white. 

 Length. 7-5 inches; wing 3-4 ; tail 3 ; tarsus 0-9. 



The female is brown above, all the feathers broadly centred with black ; 

 rump golden yellow, streaked with black centres to the feathers ; upper tail 

 coverts dark brown, edged with whitey brown and tinged with golden yellow ; 

 lesser wing coverts dull golden yellow with black centres ; median and greater 

 coverts blackish, edged with brown ; tail the same ; quills blackish ; base of 

 forehead brownish white, streaked with black ; eyebrow pale rufous ; also 

 the cheeks, which are streaked with black ; throat, foreneck and chest rufous, 

 narrowly streaked with black ; abdomen white, with narrow black streaks; 

 sides of body and flanks brown, tinged with rufous and streaked with black ; 

 under tail coverts yellowish buff, with black centres ; under wing coverts 

 and axillaries white ; edge of wing pale rufous. (Sharpe.) 



Length. 6*5 inches ; wing 3*25 ; tail 2*85 ; tarsus 0-9. 



Hab. The Himalayas from Nepaul to Sikkim and Thibet. 



849- CarpodaCUS dubiUS, Pryr. in Rowley's Misc. ii. p. 30. 

 Propasser frontalis, Blylh, J . A. S. B. xxxii. p. 458 ; Jerdon, B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 403, No. 744; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 459; id. Sir. F. 1879, 

 p. 108. The ROSY-FRONTED ROSEFINCH. 



Frontal band, and supercilium silvery rose pink ; lores and a narrow band 

 round the base of the bill beneath, crimson ; top of the head, nape and cheeks 



