216 FKINGULLIDJE. 



eye, the lores, cheeks, chin, and throat dull dark crimson, the 

 feathers dusky at their bases ; the ear-coverts and sides of the neck 

 like the back, but more broadly margined with very pale brown ; 

 the wings, tail, and upper tail-coverts hair-brown ; the feathers with 

 an excessively narrow pale brown margin, and the median coverts 

 rather more broadly tipped with pale brownish pink ; the rump 

 pale rose-colour ; breast, abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts pale 

 rose-colour, paling towards the lower tail-coverts, each feather 

 dusky at the base and with brown shafts or narrow brown shaft- 

 stripes." 



Female. The specimens in the British Museum labelled as females 

 of this species are absolutely inseparable from the females of P. 

 pulclierrimus both as regards size and colour. 



Length 5-5 to 6 ; tail 2-2 ; wing 3 ; tarsus -8 ; bill from 

 gape^-5. 



Distribution. The only male of this species known was obtained 

 in the valley of the Bhaghirati river in Garhwal. Females, pre- 

 sumably of this species, have been obtained at Suki and Darali in 

 the same valley. Sharpe identifies with this species two females 

 obtained by Hodgson in Nepal, but I cannot separate them from 

 other females ascribed to P. pulcJierrimus and also obtained by 

 Hodgson in Nepal. 



757. Propasser grandis. The Red-mantled Rose-Finch. 



Carpodacus grandis, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xviii, p. 810 (1849) ; id. Cat. 



p. 342 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 404. 

 Propasser rhodochlamys (-Z?m??^), apud Horsf. fy M. Cat. ii. p. 458; 



Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 401 ; StoUczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 60 ; 



Hume 8f Henders. Lah. to Yark. p. 259 ; Hume, Cat. no. 741 ; 



Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 84; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 578. 



Coloration. Male. The whole upper plumage and the visible 

 portions of the closed wings and tail rosy brown, becoming pure 

 rosy on the rump ; the feathers of the head and back with dark 

 brown streaks ; supercilium, sides of head, chin, and throat pale 

 shining rosy, the feathers all pointed ; lores and a band behind the 

 eye reddish brown ; lower plumage rosy red ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries rosy white. 



Female. Upper plumage ashy brown, streaked darker everywhere ; 

 the lower plumage ashy white, streaked with dark brown ; wings 

 and tail brown, the feathers with paler margins ; an indistinct 

 supercilium pale buff mottled with brown. 



Iris light brown ; bill greyish brown, the lower mandible albes- 

 cent; legs pinkish carneous brown (Warcttaiv Ramsay). 



Length about 7 ; tail 3'1 ; wing 3' 6 ; tarsus '8 ; bill from gape 

 *65. 



This species differs from the true P. rliodoclilamys, Brandt, in 

 having no rosy plumes on the forehead. 



Distribution. The whole Himalayas from Afghanistan and Gilgit 

 eastwards to Garhwul and Ivumaun. In the British Museum 



