16 Novelties. — Frocardtielis Mandellii. 



inches; wing-, 3-3 to 3'3 inches ; tail^ 2 to 2-25 inches; tarsus, 

 0-75 inch nearly ; bill at front, 0*44 to 0'5 inch. 



Female; length, 5 inch; wing-, 2"1 inches; tail, 2*25 inches; 

 tarsus, '7 inch ; bill at front, 0*49 inch. 



fN. B. — Onli/ two males and one supposed female measured, the 

 latter may he a yoibng male.) 



Bescr'ption. — Whole head, neck all round, breast, back, 

 rump, lesser and median wing coverts deep ruddy, varying 

 much in tint ; and on the back and breast confined to the tips, 

 which, owing to the feathers not overlapping sufficiently, leave 

 on the back and coverts a certain amount of the dark brown 

 and on the breast of the pale grey brown bases of the feathers 

 visible ; the forehead and the whole top of the head is a bright- 

 er and richer ruddy than the rest ; there is no distinct super- 

 ciliary stripe as in Nipalensis, and unlike the latter species the 

 occiput and forehead are unicolorous. The ear-coverts and 

 cheeks are duller, the grey leases of the feathers shewing through 

 more or less ; the throat and breast are more rosy ; there is no 

 deep Imnd on the breast or dark stripe through the eyes as in 

 Nipalensis ; the abdomen and flanks are a pale grey brown, the 

 feathers more or less faintly margined and tipped with ruddy ; 

 there are a few white feathers about the vent ; the tibial plumes 

 and lower tail coverts, are a pale grey brown, the latter narrow- 

 ly margined and tipped with pure white ; the quills, greater 

 coverts, and tail feathers are conspicuously margined with a 

 sort of ruddy ferruginous, or ruddy olive, the colour differing 

 in my two specimens. 



Siopposed female. — The whole bird (except the wings and tail 

 which are hair-brown) a dull olive brown, becoming albescent 

 , on the abdomen and mingled with dull white about the vent ; 

 the whole cap, back, rump, and upper tail coverts overlaid 

 with a slightly rusty ruddy tint, strongest on the rump ; the 

 wings and tail as in the male, except that the lesser coverts are 

 margined similarly to the quills and greater coverts with a 

 sort of ruddy rusty hue; the shafts of the ear- coverts are slight- 

 ly paler than the webs, giving a faintly striated appearance to 

 these parts ; with this exception the bird is entirely free from 

 any striations, such as more or less characterise the back of the 

 female Nipalensis, and it is altogether of a much paler tint than 

 the latter. 



The males in this species, I ought to note, very closely 

 resemble in general appearance Carpodacus Brythrimis in al- 

 most full breeding' plumage ; but the bill is conspicuously 

 slenderer and more compressed towards the tip, and the grey 

 brown under tail coverts with the narrow wellTmarked white 



