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ad. Forehead, lores, region round the eye, and chin deep rose red ; 

 fore-crown and snpercilium silvery rose ; hind-crown, nape, and upper 

 parts generally pale sandy or ashy brown, unstriped, the rump pale rose ; 

 wings and tail ashy brown, with narrow external margins ; throat pale rose, 

 with a silvery tinge ; rest of the under parts dull white, the breast washed 

 with pale rose. Culmen 0'4, wing 3*7, tail 2 '95, tarsus 0*75 inch. The 

 female differs in lacking all trace of red in the plumage, the general 

 colouration being sandy brown, paler on the rump and under parts. This 

 species approaches nearest to C. sinaiticus, but has the upper parts paler 

 and unstriped, the under parts much whiter, and tinged with rose only on 

 the throat and breast. 



Hob. Yarkand to North-west Kan-su and the Amdos plateau. 



I find no particulars of the habits or nidification of this 

 species. 



470. SCARLET FINCH. 

 CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS. 



Carpodacus erythrinus (Pall.), Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. p. 587, pi. 23, 

 fig. 1 (1770) ; Naum. iv. p. 418, Taf. 113, figs. 1. 2 ; Gould, B. of Gt. 

 Brit. iii. pi. 43 ; Newton, ii. p. 174 ; Dresser, iv. p. 75, pi. 195 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat, B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 391 ; Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, 

 ii. p. 219 ; Saunders, p. 197 ; Lilford, iv. p. 72, pi. 35 ; C. erythri- 

 nus grebnitsJdi, Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 29, p. 265 (1885) ; 

 Bianchi and Berezovski, Ptitz. Kan-su, &c. p. 133. 



Karmin-Gimpely German ; Verdone bastardo, Ital. ; Tchetche- 

 vitza, Russ. 



< ad. (Russia). Upper parts ashy brown, indistinctly darker striped, 

 except on the rump, and tinged with rose-red ; crown, nape, and rump 

 brighter, and carmine rose ; wings and tail brown, narrowly margined with 

 dull rose ; the wing-coverts more broadly tipped with dull rose, forming 

 a double alar bar ; chin, throat, and upper breast carmine, the rest of 

 the under parts dull white, tinged with rose ; bill greyish horn, darker 

 above ; legs horny brown ; iris hazel brown. Culmen 0*5, wing 3'3, 

 tail 2-5, tarsus 0'75 inch. The female has no red in the plumage, but has 

 rthe upper parts ashy brown, tinged with olive, the stripes on the head 

 clearer than on the back, the wing-coverts tipped with yellowish white, 

 and the under parts greyish white, striped with brown, the middle of the 

 abdomen nearly white. 



Hob. Eastern and north-eastern Europe ; of accidental occur- 

 rence in western and southern Europe, and Great Britain ; 

 Asia through Siberia to Kamchatka ; in winter south to China, 

 Manchuria, Mongolia, Burma, and India. 



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