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of neck being whiter, and asliy on the front of the ixeck only, the 

 breast and the rest of the nndcr-parts being uniform bright rufous- 

 brown, which colour is also prominent on the back, and especially 

 on the scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts. 



Length (■) inches ; of wing 3?ths ; tail 3 ; tarsus ^ths of an inch. 



HdO. Kumaon. In Mus. East India Company. 



E.MDERIZA CASTANEICEVS, Gould, MSS. 



Also affined to E. Cia. Crown and ear-coverts deep chestnut- 

 brown ; superciliary streak, base of upper mandible, throat, front 

 and sides of neck ashy white ; behind the cars and nape ashy ; a 

 spot before the eye and streak from base of lower mandible down the 

 sides of the throat black ; back, scapulars and rump rufous-brown, 

 the two former having blackish centres to the feathers ; wings dusky 

 black, the feathers margined with rufous-brown ; tail dusky black, 

 the two centre feathers broadly margined with rufous-brown, the two 

 outer tijjped obliquely with white for nearly the whole length ; breast 

 and flanks rufous-brown, and paling towards the centre of the belly ; 

 upper mandible dark-horn, lower paler. 



Length i)^ inches; wing 2jths; tail 2jths; tarsus ^ of an inch. 



Hab. Kiutang in China. In Mus. East India Comp., J. Gould, 

 Esq. 



Genus Propasser, Hodgson, Grav's Zool. Misc. p. 84 (1844); 

 r. Z. S. 184."), p. 3G. 



Phoenicospiza, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xxiii. p. 213 (1854). 



Propasser thura. 



Carpodacns Thura, Bonaparte et Schlegel, Monogr. des Loxiens, 

 t. 23. Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av. ]). .131 (male). 



Propasser rhodopeplus, part. Hodgson. 



Hal. Nepal. In Mus. East India Comp. Brit. Mus., J. Gould, 

 Esq. 



This species may be distinguished from the true P. rhodopeplus, by 

 its rather smaller and a trifle more pyrriiulinc bill ; the colour of 

 the male above being hair-brown, the feathers centred with blackish, 

 and the lesser range of wing-coverts only being crimson-tipped ; the 

 under-parts, rump and upper tail-coverts, checks, foreliead, and 

 superciliary streak are pale silvery-crimson, the end of the latter and 

 the centre of the belly being pure white ; the crimson feathers of the 

 head and throat being centred also with white, and the crimson 

 colour being deepest at the base of the bill ; whereas, in P. rhodopeplus 

 the male above is dark crimson-brown, and has both ranges of 

 •wing-coverts and the tertiaries pale crimson-tij)ped. The female of 

 P. Thura (which is now for the first time described) may be distin- 

 guished from the same sex of P. rhodopeplus Ijy being paler above and 

 having ])aler centres to the feathers ; the colour of the under-parts 

 being considerably more uniform ; having also but faint centres to 

 the feathers. P. rhodopeplus is a trifle larger than P. Thura. 



Tlie Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte has compared these specimens, 

 and his Ilidmess also verifies their distinctness. 



