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FRINGILLIILE. 



747. Pyrrhula erithacus. Beavan's Bullfinch. 



Pyrrhula erythaca, Blyth, Ibis, 1862, p. 389 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 389 ; 



Hume, S. F. ii, p. 455 ; id. Cat. no. 730. 

 Pyrrhula erithacus, Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 441, pi. 10 j Sharpe, Cat. 



B. M. xii, p. 455. 



Coloration. Male. A broad black band round the base of the 

 bill, edged posteriorly with greyish white shading off into the dark 

 ashy grey of the crown, nape, back, and scapulars, and the paler ashy 

 grey of the sides of the head and throat ; a broad black band across 

 the rump followed by a broader white band ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail deep glossy black ; lesser and median coverts ashy grey with 

 dark centres ; greater coverts with basal half black and terminal 

 half ashy grey ; quills black, the outer webs becoming more glossy 

 inwardly and the tertiaries being entirely glossy black ; breast, 

 upper half of abdomen and of the sides of the body orange ; re- 

 mainder of lower plumage greyish white ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries greyish white. 



Female. Differs from the male by having all the underparts, with 

 the exception of the white abdomen, of a light chocolate-colour, 

 and the back darker. 



Iris dark brown ; culmen black ; tarsus body-colour (Prje- 

 valsky}. 



Length about 6 ; tail 2-9 ; wing 3'3 ; tarsus '65 ; bill from 

 gape *45. 



Distribution. Sikhim, extending to Kansu and Western China. 



748. Pyrrhula nepalensis. The Brown Bullfinch. 



Pyrrhula nipalensis, Hodf/s. As. Ees. xix, p. 156 (1836) ; Blyth, Cat. 

 p. 122 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. ii, p. 455 ; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 390 ; Blanf. 

 J.A.S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 65; Hume, Cat. no. 731 ; Scully, S. F. viii, 

 p. 335 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 453. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and feathers round the bill dark 

 brown; crown and nape ashy brown, the feathers with dusky 

 centres ; hind neck, sides of the neck and head, throat, breast, 

 and the whole lower plumage (except the under tail-coverts and 

 middle of the abdomen which are white) plain ashy brown ; back 

 and scapulars darker ashy brown ; a white patch under and behind 

 the eye ; upper part of rump purplish black, lower white ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail black with a bronze gloss, and all the feathers 

 tipped with velvety black ; lesser and median wing-coverts dark 

 ashy brown ; greater wing-coverts pale ashy brown, the outer ones 

 broadly margined with purplish black ; quills black, margined on 

 the outer web increasingly with purplish black, the tertiaries becom- 

 ing entirely of this colour and the innermost margined exteriorly 

 with crimson ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 



Female. Eesembles the male, and differs merely in the edging to 

 the innermost tertiary being yellow instead of crimson. 



The young appear to resemble the adult female. 



