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white ; chin and throat blackish, tipped with red ; lower plumage 

 brown suffused with rosy red ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 white with asliy bases. 



Female. The forehead, round the eye, and supercilium buff ; crown 

 and nape dusky brown ; upper plumage ochraceous brown ; lesser 

 and median wing-coverts ochruceous brown, tipped paler; greater 



Fig. 62. Head of C. burton i. 



wing-coverts, primary-coverts, winglet, and quills black, tipped 

 with white ; tail as in male ; lores and ear-coverts brown with pale 

 shafts ; entire lower plumage ochraceous brown ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white with ashy bases. 



In the dry state the bill is yellow and the legs fleshy brown. 



Length 6-5 ; tail 2-6 ; wing 4 ; tarsus '8 ; bill from gape '7. 



Distribution. The Himalayas from Murree to Garhwal and 

 Kumaun. According to Stoliczka, this species is found occasionally 

 in winter on the lesser ranges, about Kotgarh and Simla, between 

 4000 and 7000 feet ; in summer it lives in the highest cedar-forests 

 on the central range of the N.W. Himalayas. 



Habits, fyc. This Finch is said to make a large nest of moss in a 

 pine-tree in dark forest situations. The eggs do not appear to be 

 known. 



Genus ACANTHIS, Bechst., 1802. 



The genus Acanthis contains the Linnets, of which two species 

 are found on the Himalayas. One of them is little more than a 

 race of the common English Linnet, but it varies in certain constant 

 particulars which I think en title it to separation from the European 

 form. The Linnets are brown, but the males have portions of the 

 plumage suffused with red. The bill is short, straight and pointed. 

 The sexes do not differ very much from each other except with 

 regard to the rosy parts of the plumage. 



Key to the /S/>< 



<i. Throat >ti< aU'd A.frirtgillirostris, p. L'i'S. 



b. Throat unstreaked , . A. brevirostns, p. 229. 



