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a plaintive “teo’’ note. I shot one, and found it to be the Regu- 
loides proregulus (Pall.). I also shot a Phylloscopus fuscatus 
(Blyth) creeping tamely about the grass. Pied Woodpeckers were 
common ; and we got several. Snow lay on the distant peaks to the 
north-west. We made for the temple-crowned mountain. As we 
approached the road under it a flock of Chukars (Caccabis chukar) 
flew up from the corner of the stubble and took to the hill. We 
pursued, and had some good sport. The Chinese rightly enough name 
this the Shihke-tsze, or “ Rock-fowl.’”’ Well up the hill-side a party 
of red-tailed birds were disporting, flying from rock to rock with loud 
notes. One was shot, and turned out to be a new form of Accentor, 
allied to A. alpinus, L. I exhibited it to this Society on the 24th 
of February, 1870, and proposed to name it Accentor erythropygius*. 
We saw a few of them later in the Nankow Pass. On this hill we 
came upon another interesting bird; it was a Sparrow-like species of 
Carpodacus, of a sandy-grey colour tinted with rose. There were 
two together, of similar colour and form. We secured the male: 
iris black ; bill light brownish horn-colour ; legs liver-brown, ochre- 
ous on soles, with deep-brown claws. 
The museum at Paris has received specimens of this species from 
Pére David; but it has been there confounded with the C. obsoletus 
(Licht.), a species with a largish black bill (ef Nouv. Arch. du Mu- 
séum, t. iii. p. 31). I find its nearest ally to be the C. githagineus 
(Licht.) of N.E. Africa, from which, however, it ean at once be distin- 
guished by its smaller bill. I will name it 
CarPopAcus MONGOLICUS, Sp. NOV. 
Male. Upper parts sandy grey, browner on the crown and back ; 
feathers of the crown, back, and scapulars with brown centres; wing- 
feathers blackish brown, greater coverts broadly margined with rose- 
colour, the primary quills more narrowly, and tipped with creamy 
white, the brown of each feather paling near. the white ; secondaries 
broadly margined with cream and tipped similar to the primaries ; 
tail deep brown, whitish on edges of inner webs and broadly edged 
on outer with cream-colour ; sides of neck, throat, breast, and flanks 
light sandy brown; rest of underparts cream-white. Rose tinges 
the sides of the head, forehead, throat, cheeks, breast, flanks, and 
rump, brightest on the last. 
Length about 5°3 inches ; wing 3°63 ; first quill -05, the longest ; 
tail 2°3, forked; centrals -3, shorter than outermost ; upper tail- 
coverts extend to °65 from the tip of the tail ; bill -34 in length, -2 in 
breadth, *29 in depth ; tarse ‘66; middle toe ‘52, its claw ‘24; hind 
toe 26, its claw 26. 
Near Shato, on the 28th, a small Owl showed itself on the top of 
a ruined brick-kiln, with wings expanded, basking inthe sun. It was 
easily bagged. On our way out I had also seen one exposing itself 
on a ruin during the day. It turns out to bea new form of Athene, 
most nearly allied to 4. glaux (Sav.) of S. Europe, in its pale colour, 
but differs from that as well as from A. noctua (L.) of N. Europe, and 
* See antea, p. 124, Pl. IX. 
