108 Mr. II. E. Dresser on rare or 



Major Corbett brought me the two birds, which I com- 

 pared with Dr. Sharpens Garpodacus severtzovi, and with 

 Garpodacus rubicilla from the Caucasus. I found them 

 intermediate between these two geographical forms, the 

 male having the under parts as in C. rubicilla, but the upper 

 parts paler and less tinged with red, though much darker 

 than in ft severtzovi. 



The eggs in the two clutches vary very little, so I have 

 figured one egg out of each clutch. 



(3) Erythkospiza sanguinka. Crimson-winged Bullfinch. 

 (PI. III. fig. 5.) 



Erythrospiza san/juinea Dress. Man. Pal. B. p. 328. 



So far as I can ascertain, the example here figured is 

 the only authentic egg of this species known to exist in 

 any collection. It was taken by Mr. J. H. Cochrane, who 

 accompanied Canon Tristram on his journey to the Holy 

 Land, at the Cedars on Mount Lebanon, on the 24th of 

 May, 1804, and was handed over to me by Mr. Cochrane 

 when he gave up collecting eggs. The female bird was 

 obtained at the nest, and passed into Canon Tristram's 

 collection. The nest was placed in a tree, and contained 

 only the one egg. Canon Tristram says that it was not 

 unlike that of a Greenfinch, but docs not give any further 

 description. 



(4) Bucanetes OB80LETUS. Persian Desert - Bullfinch. 

 (PI. III. figs. 4, 6.) 



Bucanetes obsoletw Dress. Man. Pal. B. p. 330. 



An egg of this species has been figured by Mr. Nehr- 

 korn (Katalog Eiersamml. pi. iv. fig. 49), but it was a 

 very pale specimen, and as the eggs vary from pure white 

 and bluish white to pale blue I have thought it advisable 

 to figure two, to shew the different phases. Both these 

 were taken by Mr. N. Zarudny, at Nachduin in Tians- 

 caspia, on the 3rd of June, 1892. One egg in my collection, 

 also taken by Mr. Zarudny, at Dort Kuiu in Turkestan, 

 on the 11th of May, 1886, is pure white. The nests of 

 this Bullfinch were found to be placed in bushes or on a 



