326 FRINGILLID^:. 



Gen. Propyrrhula. Hodgs. 



Bill short, a little longer than high or than its greatest breadth ; tip of the 

 upper mandible very little prolonged and overhanging. 



858- Propyrrhula subhimalayensis, Hodgs., As. Res. xix. p. 



152 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 462. Corythus subhimalayensis, 

 Hodgs., Icon ined in Br. Mus. Passeres, pi. 305 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 396, 

 No. 736. The RED-HEADED ROSEFINCK. 



The forehead, supercilium, cheeks, throat and breast roseate, brightening to 

 crimson in the breeding season ; crown, back and wings olivaceous brown, 

 margined with crimson, more or less bright and often mingled with dull 

 greenish orange, purer on the rump and upper tail coverts ; primaries 

 and tail hair brown margined with red or orange ; ear-coverts and sides of the 

 neck dark crimson ; feathers round eye paler ; under surface of the body from 

 below the breast dull brownish grey, tinged with olivaceous on the flanks ; 

 lower abdomen whitish. 



The female has the forehead arid part of throat and breast bright yellow ; 

 rest of the head, the neck and the lower plumage plumbeous grey, tinged 

 with greenish, paler and albescent on the vent and under tail coverts ; upper 

 plumage dusky greenish ; wings and tail dusky brown with yellow edges on 

 the outer webs. Bill fleshy brown ; legs pale brown ; irides hazel brown. 

 {Jerd.) 



Length. 7-8 to 8 inches ; wing 3*75 to 4 ; tail 3 ; tarsus o'Q. 



Hab. S.-E. Himalayas, in Nepaul and Sikkim during winter; Jerdon 

 obtained it in near Darjeeling, where it was found frequenting the more open 

 parts of the woods in small parties. 



Sub-Family. EMBERIZIN.E. 



Bill flattened on the sides, smaller and more compressed than in Passer, the 

 edges indented or waved a palatal knob on upper mandible; wings pointed ; 

 tarsi moderate, scutate ; hind toe longer than inner ; tail moderate, even, or 

 emarginate. 



Gen. Emberiza. 



Bill small ; second to 4th quills longest ; tail rather forked ; outermost 

 feather white or whitish. 



859. Emberiza SChoenicluS, Linn., Syst. Nat. \. p. 311 ; Yarrell, 

 Br. B. i. p. 438 ; Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 355 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. 

 p. 457. Emberiza schcenicola, Hume, Ibis, 1871, p. 38; C. Swinh, Ibis, 

 1882. The ROSY ORTOLAN. 



Adult Male in breeding plumage. General color above rufous, the feathers 

 margined paler, and those of the mantle and back with broad black centres ; 

 lower back, rump and upper tail coverts ashy grey, mesially centred with black 

 or pale brown; scapulars, and lesser and median wing coverts chestnut, the 



