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and ninth quills. Length, 6:5 inches; wing, 3°33; tail, 2°7; 
tarsus, 0°77; culmen, 0°52. 
This bird differs from immature JZ. luteola in having the 
throat and breast striped with brown, and in the wing being 
differently shaped. In . luteo/a the difference between 
the longest secondaries and longest primaries averages 0°57, 
the longest secondary being intermediate in length between 
the sixth and seventh quills. In the British Museum there 
is an undetermined specimen of a Bunting, received from 
the Moscow Museum, coloured exactly like my Gilgit bird. It 
measures :— Wing, 3°4 inches; tail, 2°8; culmen, 0°53; secon- 
daries short of point of wing, 0°85. This bird is certainly 
not any stage of ZH. aureola. I do not propose any name 
for it, as I have only examined specimens in immature 
plumage. 
159.—Euspiza melanocephala, Scop. (721.) 
This species merely passes through the district on migration, 
and is rare. I obtained only one immature specimen, on the 
17th September. In immature dress this Bunting can only 
be distinguished from the same stage of L. luteola by its supe- 
rior size and notably larger bill and coarser feet. 
160.—Mycerobas carnipes, Hodgs. (728.) 
I have compared Gilgit examples of this species with others 
from Kansu and Thibet, and cannot detect any difference in 
size or colours. There cannot be any doubt that Cocco- 
thraustes speculigera, Brandt., from Northern Persia, is merely 
a synonym of C. carnipes, Hodgson. 
-161.—Pyrrhula aurantiaca, Gould. (732.) 
The following are measurements of eight specimens of this 
Bullfinch :—Length, 5:7 to 5°9; wing, 3°1 to 3°3; tail, 2:4 to 
2:53; tarsus, 0°65; bill to gape, 0-44 to 0:5; culmen, 0°35 
to 0-4. The adult female has the head, nape, ear-coveris, and 
sides of neck ashy, the hind head being tinged with dark grey ; 
back and mantle olive, with a faint tinge of red; fore neck and 
breast reddish ash, rest of lower surface dull yellow; the 
remaining parts as in the male. Young males, in the middle 
of October, closely resemble the female in colour; but the 
head, hind neck, and ear-coverts are overlaid with the olive hue 
of the back. 
162 —Carpodacus mongolicus, Swinhoe. (732 bis A.) 
Erythrospiza incarnata, Severtzoff. 
Very common in large flocks throughout the winter, at an 
elevation of little less than 5,000 feet; from May to October 
