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Genus PYCNORHAMPHUS, Hume, 1874. 



In Pycnorliamplius the bill is very similar in sha-pe to that of 

 Coccotliraustes, but the cutting-edge of the upper mandible is 

 toothed near the gape ; the tail is square and comparatively long, 

 the difference in length between it and the whig being about equal 

 to the tarsus ; the primaries have the ordinary rounded tips. 



The Grosbeaks of this genus are of rather large size and well- 

 marked colours. They inhabit the Himalayas and but little is 

 known of their habits. 



The nestling bird appears to resemble the adult female closely 

 in this genus, but it is doubtful whether the young male moults 

 into adult plumage at the first autumn moult. Materials for 

 settling this question are at present insufficient. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No white spot on wing. 

 .' Head black. 



a". Thighs black P. icteroides $ , p. 198. 



b". Thighs yellow P. affinis <$ , p. 1 99. 



b'. Head ashy. 



c". Breast ashy grey j abdomen fawn- 

 buff P. icteroides $ , p. 198. 



d". Breast and abdomen olive-yellow . . P. qffinis , p. 199. 



b. A white spot on wing P. carneipes, p. 200. 



741. Pycnorliamphus icteroides. The Black and Yellow 

 Grosbeak. 



Coccothraustes icterioides, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, p. 8 ; Gould, Cent. 

 pi. 45 ; myth, Cat. p. 125. 



Hesperiphona icterioides ( Vig^), Horsf. fy M. Cat. ii, p. 462 ; 

 Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 384 ; Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 59 ; 

 Hume fy Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 257 ; Cock fy Marsh. S. F. i, 

 p. 358 ; Brooks, J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 84 ; Wardlaw Ramsarj, Ibis, 

 1880, p. 66 ; C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 420. 



Pycnorhamphus icteroides (Vig.), Hume, N. fy E. p. 469; id. Cat. 

 *no. 725 j Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 44 ; Oates in Hume's N. fy E. 

 2nd ed. ii, p. 150. 



Coloration. Male. The whole head, chin and throat, wings, 

 scapulars, sides of the back, upper tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, 

 axillaries, and thighs dull black ; remainder of plumage deep 

 yellow, tinged with orange on the hind neck. 



Female. Head, neck, chin, throat, breast, axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts, back, scapulars, lesser and median wing-coverts, and 

 the greater part of the outer webs of the greater coverts and 

 secondaries ashy grey, the head darker than the other parts ; rump 

 fulvous ; upper tail-coverts grey ; winglet, primary-coverts, and 

 primaries black ; abdomen, sides of the body, and under tail-coverts 

 fawn-buff. 



