416 BIRDS OCCURRING IN INDIA NOT DESCRIBED 



brown. Wing, 3-15, 3'22 ; tail, 2'5, 26 ; tarsus, 0'92, 095 j 

 bill from gape, 0*52. 



The female is earthy brown, the feathers of the upper parts 

 with pale margins, and the wing-coverts and last three quills 

 (tertiaries) with albescent tips to the outer webs ; supercilia 

 isabelline ; rump with an ochraceous tinge ; underparts 

 fulvous, all the feathers with dark centres, broader on the 

 breast, narrower on the abdomen, which has a rufescent tinge. 

 Wing, 3-05, 3-15 ; tail 2'45, 2'5 ; tarsus, 0*95 ; bill from 

 forehead, 047, 049. 



Another bird, apparently a young male, is much more 

 ochraceous than the female in colouring, especially on the under- 

 parts, sides of head and neck ; the margins of the quills and 

 tail feathers ai*e olivaceous. 



Another pair confirms the above description, except that the 

 throat of the male is the same colour as the cheeks, instead of 

 being rather deeper red. — Blanford, J. A. S. 2?., 1871. 



750 bis.— Chrysomitris tibetana, Hume. 



Although I have now received numbers of this species, I 

 have none at hand here to describe, and so must fain reproduce 

 the original description, which is of the female only. : — 



Dimensions. — Length, 4' A 75 ; wing^ 2""70 ; tail, 1"*9 ; tarsus, 

 0"'4 ; bill at front, 0' A 35. 



Description (only female obtained.) — Legs and feet brown ; 

 bill brown, fleshy on lower mandible. Plumage : Head, neck, 

 back, and scapulars dingy olive-green, each feather with a dark 

 brown central stripe, a long supercilium, continued backwards 

 round the ear-coverts, and an ill-defined patch on the nape green- 

 ish yellow ; ear-coverts brownish olive ; lower parts pale 

 yellow, albescent on the middle of the abdomen and towards 

 the vent ; the sides and flanks with dusky central streaks ; 

 lower tail-coverts pale yellow, each feather with a linear lan- 

 ceolate blackish brown central streak ; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts greenish yellow, with traces of central dusky streaks ; 

 quills and tail blackish brown, edged exteriorly with greenish 

 yellow ; the primaries very narrowly margined at the tips, and 

 the tail-feathers on the inner webs with greyish white. 



This is a true Siskin, agreeing perfectly in shape of bill with 

 the European C. spinus.—^H.ume i u Ibis" 1872, 107. 



