NOTES. 523 



Propasser Stoliczkse, Sp. Nov. 



Female nearly uniform, pale, slrealcless, earthy brown. Male, similar, 

 with frontal band, lores, cheeks, ear-coverts, and upper throat, dull 

 crimson; band over eyes and frontal band pale silvery pink. Mfimp, 

 breast, and upper abdomen rosy pink. 



This Rose-finch appears undescribed ; it was obtained on 

 the 4th of June at Chiklifc. 



The following are the dimensions taken from the dry skins:— 



Male, length, 6'25 ; wing, 3*6 ; tail, from vent, 2'8 ; tarsus, 

 0-8 ; bill, at front, 0'4. 



Female, slightly smaller, e.g., wing, 3'5. 



The legs and feet appear to have been dark brown, darkest 

 on the feet. The bills brownish horny, paler on the lower 

 mandible. 



The female is every where a nearly uniform pale whitey 

 brown, the quills margined still paler. 



The lateral tail feathers pale hair brown, but margined 

 exteriorly with the same whitey brown. The lower parts simi- 

 lar, but with a slight fulvous tinge. The feathers of the fore- 

 head and anterior portion of crown inconspicuously centred 

 darker ; lores slightly more dusky. 



The male is similar, but has the quills and rectrices slightly 

 darker ; the rump a soft rose pink ; a narrow frontal band, the 

 lores, a part of the orbital region, and the upper portion of the 

 throat immediately round the base of the lower mandible, dull 

 crimson ; a band above the crimson frontal band, extending on 

 either side above the eyes, pale silvery pink ; sides of head, 

 rest of throat, breast, and upper abdomen dull pale pink, of 

 which faint traces in some specimens descend to the lower 

 abdomen. 



oUs. 



At page 92 of this volume, in my diary of our trip to the 

 Andamans and Nicobars, I rather reflected upon the conduct 

 of an officer of the settlement in having prided himself on 

 being on friendly terms with Hung-hung-soo, who, accord- 

 ing to the published official account, and also to what Davison 

 and I heard on the Islands, was a ruffian and murderer of no 

 ordinary atrocity. 



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