274 A LAUDING. 



Carpodacus erythrinus, Pallas. 



738. -Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 398 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 498 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 

 IX, p. 417 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 189 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 129. 



THE COMMON HOSE FINCH. 



Length, 5'5 ; wing, 3'25 ; tail, 2'25. 



Bill yellowish-brown ; irides light-brown ; feet horny-brown. 



Male, in winter plumage, has the head, throat, breast, mous- 

 tachial stripe, rump, and flanks of abdomen, roseate color, 

 deepest upon the crown, throat, and breast, and paling on the 

 flanks; upper plumage generally brown, more or less ruddy, 

 brightening towards the rump and on the upper tail-coverts ; the 

 Aving-coverts tipped with ruddy-brown, forming two pale bars 

 on the wing ; tertiaries margined with pale-brown ; quills and 

 tail-feathers with ruddy edgings. In summer the crown, throat, 

 breast, and rump become brilliant crimson. 



The female is pale olive-brown with dark streaks, the tips of 

 the greater and lesser wing-coverts whitish, forming two con- 

 spicuous bands on the wings ; below paler brown, albescent on the 

 throat, the middle of the belly and the under tail-coverts, and 

 darker and somewhat streaked on the breast and flanks. 



The Rose Finch is found during the winter in all suitable 

 localities in the district. It is partial to hilly forest tracts. 



SUB-FAMILY, Alaudinse. 



Bill rather long and slender, short and thick in many ; wings 

 broad ; tertiaries elongated, pointed ; claws slightly curved ; hind- 

 toe and claw typically long ; plumage brown, more or less 

 striated. 



GENUS, Mirafra, Horsf. 



Bill stout, thick, compressed ; the culmen curved and convex ; 

 the tip slightly deflected ; commissure gently curving ; wings 

 rather short ; first quill short, second shorter than third ; fourth, 

 fifth, and sixth, which are nearly equal ; tail very short, even ; legs 

 rather long ; hind-claw moderately long. 



Mirafra erythroptera, Jerdon. 



756. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 418 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 499 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 

 Vol. IX, p. 418 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 192 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 129. 



THE RED-WINGED BUSH LARK. 



Length, 5'5 ; wing, 3'2 ; tail, 2 ; tarsus, 0'92 ; bill at front, 

 0-4. 



Bill fleshy-horny, dusky on culmen ; irides dark-brown ; legs 

 fleshy. 



