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light brown. Culmen 0*5, wing 3'65, tail 3'05, tarsus 0'95 inch. The 

 female has no red in the plumage but is ashy brown above, ashy white 

 below, clearly streaked with blackish brown ; wings and tail brown with 

 paler margins ; supercilium indistinct, pale buff mottled with brown. 



Hob. The Altai, Alatau, and Tian-shan ranges; Turkestan 

 south to the Iskander-kul and Zamin, east to the spurs of the 

 mountains of Kashgar. 



Respecting the habits of this bird there is very little on 

 record, and I find no description of its nidification. 



474. SUBSP. CARPODACUS GRANDIS. 



Carpodacus grandis, Blyth, J.A.S.B. xviii. p. 810 (1849) ; Gould, B. of 

 As. v. pi. 26 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 404 ; Gates, F. Brit. 

 Ind. Birds, ii. p. 216 ; C. sophia^ Bp. and Schlegel, Mon. Lox. p. 22, 

 pi. 34. 



ad. (Himalayas). Differs from C. rhodochlamys merely in having 

 the forehead like the rest of the crown and not silvery rose. Culmen 0*5, 

 wing 3'6, tail 3*1, tarsus 0'85 inch. The female is indistinguishable from 

 that of C. rhodochlamys. 



Hcib. North-east Afghanistan and the Himalayas from Gilgit 

 to Garhwal and Kumaun, but it is doubtful if it occurs in 

 Sikhim. 



Is common near Gilgit, and found in summer to an elevation 

 of about 9,000 feet, descending in winter to 5,000 feet or below 

 that. There is said to be no difference in the plumage between 

 winter and summer. I find no description of its nidification. 



475. THE ROSE-FINCH. 

 CARPODACUS ROSEUS. 



Carpodacus roseus (Pall.), Reis. Buss. Beichs, iii. p. 699 (1776) ; 

 '(Naum.) iv. p. 418, Taf. 113, fig. 3 ; (Gould), B. of E. iii. pi. 207 ; 

 id. B. of Asia, v. pi. 33 ; (Tacz.) F. G. Sib. 0. p. 656 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 407 ; Bianchi and Berezovski, Ptitz. Kan-su, 

 etc. p. 136. 



ad. (E. Siberia). Forehead and fore-crown silvery white tinged with 

 rose ; rest of crown and nape pale rosy red ; back rose-red striped with 

 blackish brown ; lower back and rump rose-red ; wings and tail dark 

 brown washed with red and margined with rosy white or pale rose ; 

 median and greater coverts tipped with rosy white ; forming a double 

 alar bar ; cheeks, throat, and sides of the neck rosy red closely spotted 

 with silvery white ; rest of under parts deep rosy red, the middle of the 



