1886.] MR. SHARPE ON BIRDS IN THE HUME COLLECTION. 353 
beak crimson-red. Had just caught and partly eaten a large 
spider.”’ 
Fam. TROGONID. 
Harpactes puvauceut, Temm.; Gould, Monogr. Trogon. 2nd 
ed. pl. 40. 
“No. 15. Male. Irides brown; bill pure cobalt-blue. Hills up 
to about 2000 feet.” 
7. Notes on Specimens in the Hume Collection of Birds. 
By R. Bowpter Suarez, F.L.S. &e. 
[Received June 18, 1886. ] 
(Continued from p. 97.) 
ConTENTs, 
No. 2. On some Rose-Finches, p. 353. 
No. 3. On Lalage melanothoraz, p. 354. 
No. 4. On some Flycatchers of the Genus Siphia, p. 354. 
No. 2. On some Rose-Finches. 
In 1881 Colonel Biddulph (Ibis, 1881, p. 156, pl. vi.) noticed 
the differences between the large Rose-Finches of Yarkand and 
those of the Gilgit district, in which he had been resident for 
some time, and named the former bird Propasser rhodometopus. 
Having lately had occasion to examine the series of Rose-Finches in 
the Hume Collection, I was able to discriminate the P. rhodometopus 
of Biddulph as distinct from P. rhodochlamys of Indian authors, from 
the Himalayas. The two species are very nearly allied, but the 
Yarkand bird has silvery pointed feathers on the forehead, which 
the Himalayan bird has not. 
At the same time Colonel Biddulph has, I believe, fallen into an 
error in his identification of the true P. rhodochlamys of Brandt, 
which was described from the Altai Mountains, and appears to me 
to be identical with the Yarkand bird, but net with P. rhodochlamys 
(so-called) from the Himalayas. 
Brandt in his original description (Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Sci. 
St. Pétersb. 1843, p. 363) distinctly says ‘‘ Penne frontales, 
verticis, gutturis &c. acuminate ;”’ and this seems to point undoubt- 
edly to the species afterwards called P. rhodometopus by Biddulph. 
Consequently the Himalayan species must require a separate desig- 
nation, which is forthcoming in Propasser grandis (Blyth, J. A. 8. 
Beng. xviii. p. 810). 
Mr. Seebohm has lent me specimens of Carpodacus rubicillus 
from the Caucasus, and on comparing them with examples of so- 
ealled ©. rubdicillus from Turkestan and Yarkand, which have the 
back almost entirely uniform, and narrow black shaft-streaks on the 
under tail-coverts, I find that the two species are not identical. 
