276 PROG A RD UELISCHR YSOMITRIS 



Hob. Siberia from Krasnoyarsk to Lake Baikal (where it is 

 of rare occurrence) ; Trariscaspia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, and 

 the Himalayas. 



In habits it does not differ from C. elegans and nothing is 

 known respecting its nidification. Where it meets C. elegans 

 or rather its eastern form (C. major), which is rather larger and 

 whiter, the two species appear to interbreed freely. 



PROCARDUELIS, Hodgs., 1844. 



406. NEPAL ROSE FINCH. 

 PROCARDUELIS NEPALENSIS. 



Procarduelis nipalensis, (Hodgson), As. Kesearch. xix. p. 157 (1836) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 182 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. 

 p. 223 ; Bianchi and Berezovski, Ptitz. Gan-su, p. 133. 



Ka-liya, Lepch. 



< ad. (Sikhim). Forehead and fore-crown deep rosy red ; upper parts, 

 wings, tail, and breast blackish brown tinged with red, the breast-feathers 

 with rosy vinaceous margins ; supercilium, chin, throat, and abdomen 

 rosy red ; flanks dark brown tinged with red ; under tail-coverts dark 

 brown margined with pale pink ; bill dusky, paler below ; legs fleshy 

 brown ; iris dark brown. Culmen 0'5, wing 3'55, tail 2'6, tarsus 0'85 inch. 

 The female has the upper parts, wings, and tail brown, the feathers more 

 or less margined with ochraceous, the under parts, sides of. head and neck 

 ochraceous brown. 



Hdb. Himalayas from Kashmir to Bhutan at elevations of 

 from 6,000 to 10,000 feet, according to season; South-west 

 Kan-su. 



It is said to be usually found in small flocks and is not shy. 

 Nothing appears to be on record respecting its nidification. 

 Procarduelisrubescens, Blanf, is also said to occur in S.W. Kan-su. 



CHRYSOMITBIS, Boie, 1828. 



407. Siskin. 

 CHRYSOMITRIS SPINUS. 



Chrysomitris spinus, (Linn.) Syst. Nat, i. p. 322 (1766) ; (Naum.; v. 

 p. 155, Taf. 125 ; (Hewitson), i. p. 198, pi. 1. fig. 2 ; (Gould), B. of 

 E. iii. pi. 197 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iii. pi. 37 ; (Newton), ii. p. 126 ; 

 Dresser, iii. p. 541, pi. 169 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 212 ; 

 Saunders, p. 175 ; (Lilford), iv. p. 55, pi. 27. 



