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in the fifth to the eighth, the latter tipped with somewhat yellow- 

 ish-white ; the inner webs of both more or less broadly margined 

 towards their bases with white. 



The rump is, in the male, pale vermilion pink ; in the female, 

 unicolorous with the back ; the upper tail-coverts (which are 

 rather long- and very pointed), are in both sexes a darker brown 

 than the back, and are edged with white. 



I do not doubt that this is Linota brevirostris, and that Moore's 

 measurement of the wing is erroneous, but if he is correct, our 

 bird is distinct and might stand as Linota montanella. — Hume, 

 " Lahore to Yarkand." 



752 6is.— Leucosticte hsematopygia, Gould. 



Dimensions. — Length, 69 to 7'25 ; wing, 4'5 to 4*75 

 second primary longest ; first, 0*1 ; second, 0*05 ; fourth, 0'25 

 fifth, 0'68 ; sixth, TO inch shorter; tail from vent, 3-1 to 3 - 5 

 exterior tail feathers, 0*35 longer than central ones ; tarsus, 

 0'8'f mid-toe to root of claw, 065 ; its claw straight from root 

 to point, 0-25; hind toe, similarly, 0'28 ; its claw, 0*38; bill 

 at front, 0*45 to 0'48. (The females are slightly smaller than 

 the males.) 



Description. — Bill, legs, and feet black ; irides brown. 



Plumage. — The n t ale has the forehead and lores deep, almost 

 blackish brown ; and the crown, cheeks, ear-coverts somewhat pa- 

 ler and the hind head paler still, the colour fading gradually ; up- 

 per back again paler, and the feathers more or less margined with 

 pale brown ; the scapulars pale grey brown ; the feathers with 

 narrow ill-defined darker brown central streaks; mid-back 

 pale greyish brown ; rump similar, but each feather tipped nar- 

 rowly with crimson ; upper tail-coverts pale whity brown, 

 margined paler; tail feathers very dark brown, the exterior 

 laterals with the whole, and the penultimate with nearly the 

 whole of the outer webs, yellowish white ; all the rest of the 

 feathers margined with white very narrowly, except on the outer 

 web, towards their bases. Winglet, primaries and secondaries, 

 and primary greater coverts dark brown, paler and greyer on 

 the inner webs, and ail margined exteriorly, the later primaries 

 and the secondaries more broadly, and the rest very narrowly 

 with white, or yellowish white ; lesser and most of the median 

 coverts whity brown ; chin brown ; throat and breast whity 

 brown, becoming albescent on the abdomen, and nearly pure 

 white on the lower tail-coverts. Some few of the feathers of 

 these parts slightly darker shafted ; wing-lining and axillaries 

 slightly greyish white. 



