338 P YRRHULAPINICOLA 



glossy black ; breast, upper abdomen, and sides orange-red, rest of under 

 parts greyish white ; bill black ; legs dull flesh colour ; iris dark brown. 

 Culmen 0'4, wiftg 3'27, tail 2'8, tarsus 0'7 inch. The female has the under 

 parts, excepting the white abdomen, chocolate, the back darker. 



Hob. Sikhim, Kan-su, Western China. 



I find nothing on record respecting its habits or nidification. 



The following species of Bullfinch, though not recorded from 

 the Palaearctic area, may not improbably occur there, viz. : 

 Pyrrhula nipalensis, Hodgson (inhabiting the Himalayas from 

 Garhwal to Sikhim, and Fohkien in China), P. aurantiaca, 

 Gould (the Hazara country and Kashmir, extending into 

 the adjoining native territory), and P. erythrocephala, Vigors 

 (Southern Kashmir and Chamba, along the Himalayas to 

 Bhutan). 



PINICOLA, Vieill., 1807. 



494. PINE GEOSBEAK. 



PINICOLA ENUCLEATOR. 



Pinicola enudeator (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 299 (1766) ; (Wils.) Am. Orn. 

 i. p. 80, pi. 5, iig 2 ; (Naum.) iv. p. 403, Taf. 112, figs. 1, 2 ; (Gould), 

 B. of E. iii. pi. 204 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iii. pi. 44 ; (Hewitson), 

 i. p. 210, pi. liii. ; (Newton), ii, p. 177 ; Dresser, iv. p. Ill, pi. 201 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 459 ; Saunders, p. 199 ; Lilford, 

 iv. p. 73, pi. 36 ; Ridgway, p. 388. 



Dur-lec vulgaire French ; Fichtengimpel, Hakengimpel, 

 German ; Krognceb, Dan. ; Konglebit, Norw. ; Tallbit, Swed. ; 

 Taviokuuma, Finn. ; Pacagas-loddi, Lapp. ; Shur, Russ. 



ad. (Sweden). Upper parts rich, light, carmine-red, the base of the 

 feathers slaty blue, the head, neck, and rump richer coloured ; wings and 

 tail blackish brown, margined with pale red, the secondaries margined, and 

 the larger and median coverts broadly tipped with white, the scapulars 

 and lesser coverts edged with slaty blue, and washed with red ; lores, fore- 

 head, and orbital region dull blackish ; middle of abdomen, under wing- 

 and tail-coverts slate-blue, the last tipped with white ; rest of the under 

 parts like the upper parts ; bill dull horn, paler at the base below ; legs 

 blackish brown ; iris dark brown. Culmen 0'7, wing 4*35, tail 37, 

 tarsus 0'9 inch. The female differs in having the red in the plumage 

 replaced by apple-yellow. The young bird resembles the female. 



Hcib. The Northern portions of the Old and New Worlds, 

 occasionally straying in winter to continental Europe, and even 

 to Great Britain ; has been obtained as far south as Italy. 



