326 CARPODACUS 



$ ad. (Himalayas). Forehead, crown, nape, and upper parts generally 

 hair-brown, tinged with grey on the back, broadly striped with blackish 

 brown ; rump pale rose almost unstriped ; wings and tail dark brown 

 with paler margins ; supercilium and cheeks silvery rose ; under parts 

 pale rose, the dark bases of the feathers showing through on the throat and 

 breast ; lower abdomen paler ; flanks striped with dark brown ; bill horn- 

 brown the lower mandible greyish, legs rosy grey, iris reddish brown. 

 Culmen 0'42, wing 3'02, tail 2*57, tarsus 0'75 inch. The female has the 

 upper parts fulvous brown streaked with blackish brown, under parts ashy 

 white tinged with fulvous and closely streaked with dark brown, the 

 supercilium indistinctly fulvous, mottled with brown. 



Hcib. The Himalayas from Kumaun to Sikhim, S.E. Tibet, 

 S.E. Mongolia, the Utai-shan mountain range, Central and 

 North China to Ordos. 



Is found in the more elevated portions of the mountains and 

 is resident, frequenting both bushes and trees, feeding on buds 

 and small seeds. Its nest, which is placed in a bush, is con- 

 structed of fern leaves and grass-bents, lined with hair and 

 feathers, and is neatly formed and cup-shaped. The eggs, 5 in 

 number, are rich turquoise-blue spotted with brown. Its call- 

 note is a low, plaintive whistle, and its song 'pleasing but little 

 varied. 



Three other species of Carpodacus may very probably occur 

 within the Palsearctic area, though they have not yet been 

 obtained there. These are Carpodacus rhodochrous (Vigors) 

 which inhabits the Himalayas from Dharmsala to Nepal, 

 C. rhodopephcs (Vigors) which inhabits the Himalayas from 

 Garhwal to Sikhim, and C. verreauxi (David) which has been 

 obtained in the elevated mountain valleys above Moupin. 



478. EDWARDS'S ROSE-FINCH. 

 CARPODACUS EDWARDSI. 



Carpodacus edwardsi Verr. Nouv. Arch. Mus. Bull. vi. p. 39 (1870), 

 viii. pi. 3, fig. 4 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 418 ; (David 

 and Oust.) Ois. Chine, p. 355, pi. 94 ; (Gates), F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. 

 p. 218; Bianchi and Berezovski, Ptitz. Kan-su, etc. p. 139; 

 Propasser saturatus, Blanf. J.A.S.B. xli. Pt. ii. p. 168, pi. viii. 

 (1872). 



ad. (Sikhim). Upper parts brown washed with crimson, the back 

 and scapulars streaked with black ; forehead, crown, and nape dull 

 crimson with black streaks ; lores and sides of head dull crimson ; super- 

 cilium, cheeks, chin, and throat rose-pink ; breast dark rose, rest of under 



