PYRRHULA. 325 



f innermost secondaries crimson; a pale drab band formed by the tips of the 

 greater coverts ; a narrow band of dusky brown round the base of the bill ; a 

 small white spot under the eye ; ear coverts, cheeks, sides of body and flanks, 

 also the thighs and under surface of the body like the back but paler and 

 passing to white on the lower abdomen, vent and under tail coverts. Bill 

 greenish horny, tipped with black ; legs fleshy brown ; irides brown. 



Length. 6'2 to 6-3 ; wing 3-3 ; tail 3-5, emarginate, the middle feather 

 0*75 inch shorter than the rest. 



The female has the outer web of the tertiaries saffron yellow instead of red. 



Hal. S.-E. Himalayas, Nepaul and Sikkim. 



856. Pyrrhula erithacus, Biyth, ibis, 1862, p. 359; id ,J. A. S. B, 



xxxii. p. 459; J rd. B.Ind. ii. p. 389, No. 730; Hume, Str. F. 1874, 

 p. 455 ; id., Sir. F. 1879, p. 108 ; Biyth, Ibis, 1862, p. 389; Beavan, Ibis, 

 1868, p. 177; Gould, B. Asia v. pi. 39; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. 

 P 455- BEAVAN'S BULLFINCH. 



A narrow black band edged with white round the base of the bill ; head, 

 neck, back and wing coverts pure ashy grey, paler on the chin and throat, and 

 edged with black where it joins the pure white on the rump ; wing and tail 

 glossy black ; greater coverts pale silvery ashy, forming a conspicuous pale 

 wing bar ; beneath from the breast lively red passing to white on the vent and 

 under tail coverts ; eyelids, lores, forepart of cheeks and chin spot black ; 

 lower throat ashy grey washed with orange ; neck and breast orange scarlet ; 

 bill black ; feet fleshy ; iris dark brown, 



Length. 5*8 to 6 inches; wing 3*3 to 3*4; tail 3. 

 Hal. Sikkim (Darjeeling). 



857. Pyrrhula aurantiaca, Gould, P. z. S. 1857, p- 22 ; id.,B. 



Asia v. pi. 34; Jerd. B> 2nd. ii. p. 390, No. 732; Stolickza, Str. F. 1874, 

 p. 461; Hume, Str. F. 1879, P- I0 ^ 5 Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 5.77; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 455. Pyrrhula aurantia, Gould, E. Asia, v. pi. 34 ; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 47. The ORANGE BULLFINCH. 



Frontal band, lores, eyelid, forepart of cheeks, upper throat, wings and tail 

 deep black ; also the upper tail coverts ; sides of neck and of face, ear coverts 

 and upper and under surface of the body deep orange ; under tail and under 

 wings coverts, also the axillaries and rump, white ; wing coverts black, mar- 

 gined with orange, ashy subterminally ; apical half of the innermost of the 

 greater wing coverts orange, the outer ones slightly tipped with buffy white. 



Bill black; feet fleshy ; irides dark brown. 



Length. 5*5 inches ; wing 3*25 ; tail 2*3 ; tarsus O"6. 



The female has a black circle round the bill ; head and neck ash colour ; back 

 ashy, tinged with orange red ; lower parts as in the male but less brilliant. 



Hab. Cashmere, the Sind Valley, Murree and the N.-W. Himalayas. 



