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472. THREE-BANDED ROSE-FINCH. 

 CARPODACUS TRIFASCIATUS. 



Carpodacus trifasciatus, Verreaux, Nouv. Arcliiv. du Mtis. Bull. vL 

 p. 30 (1870) viii. pi. 4, fig. 3 ; (David and Oust.) Ois. Chine, p. 353, 

 pi. 93 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 404 ; Bianchi and Berezov. 

 Ptitz. Kan-sn, etc. p. 138, tab. iii. figs. 1, 2. 



< ad. (Kan-su). Upper parts crimson, the dorsal feathers margined 

 with pale grey, forehead and fore-crown striped with silvery grey ; wings 

 black, the secondaries broadly margined externally with white ; wing- 

 coverts and scapulars broadly tipped with white ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail blackish brown ; under parts dull crimson, brighter on the lower 

 breast ; sides of the head, chin, and throat with silvery white stripes ;. 

 flanks greyish white, middle of abdomen nearly white ; under tail-coverts 

 slaty blackish tipped with dull white, bill brown, the lower maiidibl& 

 whitish ; legs greyish red ; iris chestnut red. Culmen 0'5, wing 3'4, tail 

 3*03, tarsus 0'85 inch. The female lacks all trace of red in the plumage ;: 

 upper parts dull slate-grey striped with blackish except on the rump, the 

 back slightly, the rump more clearly washed with golden yellow ; wing* 

 and tail slaty blackish, the red and white on the male replaced by 

 yellow ; under parts dull ashy grey with darker stripes, the middle of 

 the abdomen dull ashy white ; the sides of the head slightly, and the 

 breast richly washed with golden yellow. 



Hob. Western Szechuen and Kan-su. 



Nothing appears to be known of the habits of this Rose- 

 Finch except that it frequents the bush-covered portions of the 

 mountains, where it feeds on the seeds of the wild plants. 



473. BRANDT'S ROSE-FINCH. 

 CARPODACUS RHODOCHLAMYS. 



Carpodacus rhodochlamys (Brandt), Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. St. Petersb. 

 1843, p. 27 ; Bp. and Schlegel, Monogr. Lox. p. 22, pi. 35 ;; 

 Severtz. Turk. Jevot. p. 64 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 406 ; 

 Propasser rhodometopus, Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 156, pi. vi. 



(J ad. (Turkestan). Forehead and a broad supercilium silvery white,, 

 washed with rose ; crown and upper parts generally rosy brown with 

 darker stripes, the rump rosy red, unstriped ; wings and tail dark brown 

 with broad internal rosy whitish external margins to the wing-feathers, 

 and narrow ones on the tail ; sides of head, chin, and throat, silvery rose, 

 the feathers pointed ; lores and a band through the eye rosy brown ; rest 

 of the under parts rosy red, the under tail-coverts paler and striped with 

 brown ; bill greyish brown, whitish below ; legs brownish flesh colour j iris 



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