Novelties. — Pfocarduelis Mandellii. 15 



describe as new, doubting- whether, despite the description given 

 by Moore, Safurafus- mig-ht not be Fidclierrimus, Hodgson; and 

 a drawing of Mr. Hodgson^s which he gives as the young of 

 Fulcherrimus, made me doubt still farther on this point. Wliile 

 on this subject I may mention that I quite agi-ee with Mr. 

 Blanford that the female Projoasser figured by Moore, Pro. Z. 

 S. 1855, p. 315, is not that of P. Tkwra, not for the reason 

 assigned by him, viz., that it is too rufous below, but because 

 the rufous is wronglj;- distributed, and because the I'urap and upper 

 tail coverts in the female P. T/inra are conspicuously tinged 

 with yellow, a point which could never have escaped Mr. Wolf. 

 Further, because Mr. jMoore says, that the color of the under- 

 parts of his female bird was comparatively unifoi-m, with but 

 taint dark centres to the feathers, whereas in the true female 

 Tkura, there is a strong contrast between the coloring of dif- 

 ferent portions of the lower surface, and the dark centres are 

 much more strongly marked than in any other species of the 

 whole group. These very strongly marked centres to the 

 feathers, and the comparatively very rusty rufous chin and 

 throat are what serve at once to distinguish the female TImra. 

 The ground color of the centre abdomen is always white, more 

 or less faintly tinged with fulvous ; but the ferruginous color 

 of the chin and throat, while sometimes confined to these parts, 

 at other times extends over the whole of the breast, sides,, and 

 flanks, so that really WolPs figure of Moore's female Projxxsser, 

 though much too grey about the chin and throat, is not nearly 

 rufous enough on the breast and sides for some specimens of 

 Tliura. As a matter of fact, I entertain no doubt that Aloore's 

 female Propasser belonged to the species now christened Satu- 

 ratus. Mr. Keulemans' drawing given by Mr. Blanford in J. A. 

 S. B., Yol. XLI., 1872, is of a young female, much too yellow 

 about the throat and chin for the adult, which is precisely like 

 the bird figured by Wolf, and what makes me the more certain 

 of this identification is that the female of Sahorakts is conspi- 

 cuous for the very faint darker centres to the feathers of the 

 lower partSj one of the leading characters assigned by Mr. Moore 

 to his bird. 



PhodopepelMS, I may add, may be distinguished at once from 

 all our other Indian Propassers by the strongly marked tippings 

 to both the g-reater and median coverts, and tippings to the 

 exterior webs of the tertiaries, the covert tippings forming two 

 very conspicuous wing bars in both sexes, rosy- white in male, 

 pale buffy or yellowish white in the female. 



To return now to Procarditelis Mandellii. 



Dimensions (tahen from the dry skin.) — Male; length, 5*25 



