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Coloration. Male. Upper plumage dark crimson-brown, the 

 centres of the feathers darker ; lower back streaked with rosy ; 

 rump-feathers broadly tipped rosy ; wings and tail dark brown, 

 every feather margined with crimson-brown ; median coverts with 

 a rosy tip ; greater coverts and tertiaries with a rosy tip to the 

 outer web only; a very broad superciliuin pale shining rosy ; sides 

 of the head and neck crimson-brown ; lower plumage rosy red, the 

 crimson-brown bases of the feathers everywhere visible, the 

 feathers of the throat pointed and tipped with pale shining rosy. 



Female. The whole upper plumage olive-brown, tinged with 

 ochraceous and closely streaked with blackish ; wing and tail dark 

 brown, the median and greater coverts tipped with ochraceous, the 

 tertiaries with a long oblique patch of ochraceous on the outer 

 web ; all the quills and the tail margined with olive-brown ; a 

 broad ochraceous-buff supercilium ; lores and ear-coverts blackish ; 

 the whole lower plumage ochraceous buff, streaked with dark brown. 



Bill horny-brown ; legs pale brown ; iris brown (Jerdon). 



Length nearly 7 ; tail 2-9 ; wing 3'3 ; tarsus '9 ; bill from 

 gape *6. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Garhwal to Sikhim. 



760. Propasser edwardsi. Edivards's Eose-Finch. 



Carpodacus edwardsii, Verr. Nouv. Arch. Mus. vi, Bull. p. 39 (1870), 

 vu,Bull. p. 58, viii, Bull. pi. 3, fig. 4 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 418. 



Propasser saturatus, Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 168, pi. viii 

 (1872) ; id. Ibis, 1873, p. 218; Hume, S. F.i, p. 418. 



Propasser edwardsi ( Fen\), Hwme, S. F. vii, p. 415 ; id. Cat. no. 

 744 bis. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, crown, and nape dull crimson, with 

 black shaft-streaks ; a broad supercilium, cheeks, chin, and throat 

 rosy pink, with dashes of the same on the forehead ; lores and sides 

 of the head dull crimson ; back, rump, scapulars, and upper tail- 

 coverts brown washed with crimson, the back and scapulars 

 with broad black streaks ; wing-coverts, quills, and tail blackish 

 margined with reddish brown, the coverts and tertiaries also tipped 

 with pale rosy ; breast dark rosy red, with black shaft- streaks ; 

 remainder of lower parts pink, with black shaft-streaks. 



Female. Similar to the female of C. rliodopeplus, from which it 

 can only be separated by its slightly shorter tail, measuring about 

 2'6 (whereas in the other species the tail measures quite 2*8); by 

 the colour of the lores and ear-coverts, which are brown mottled 

 with buff (not black) ; and by the less distinct supercilium. 



Length about 6-5 ; tail 2-7 ; wing 3-1 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from 

 gape *58. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Nepal to Bhutan, extending to 

 the mountains of Western China. This species occurs at high 

 levels, Mandelli having procured it at 10,000 feet. 



