132 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF GILGIT. 
it is only found at higher elevations, where it breeds. TI have 
compared Gilgit specimens of this bird with Swinhoe’s type 
of Carpodacus mongolicus {in Mr. Seebohm’s collection), and 
find that the species is identical. The Chinese bird is not 
darker than Gilgit or Turkestan examples; neither does it differ 
from them in any respect whatever. The adult female only 
differs from the male in being slightly smaller and in having 
the rose colour less intense. The following are the extreme 
dimensions of sixty-eight specimens of this species :—Length, 
5°3 to 6:15 inches; wing, 3°35 to 3°85; tail, 2°2 to 2°53 tarsus, 
0°63 to 0'7 ; bill to gape, 0°4 to 0°43. 
164.—Carpodacus erythrinus, Pall. (788.) 
Common from the 18th April to the middle of September. 
In twenty adult specimens the wings in the males measure 
3:25 to 3°5 inches, and in the females 3°15 to 3'3. 
165.—Propasser rhodochlamys, Brandt. (741.) 
This species is very common, and is found at 5,000 feet and 
less throughout the winter; in summer it occurs up to an 
elevation of about 9,000 feet. I cannot detect any difference in 
colour, in either sex, due to season; and, in fact, in my series 
of this bird there is less variation among individuals than in 
any other species of which I have examined equal numbers. 
Females are rather smaller than males, but not constantly 
so; young males are absolutely inseparable from adult females 
in size and colour. I did not obtain any immature males 
showing the transition from the female to the male plumage. 
The following are measurements taken from thirty fresh 
specimens :—Length, 6°9 to 7:4 inches; wing, 3-4 to 3°8; tail, 
2°8 to 3:2; tarsus, 0°75 to 0:9; bill to gape, 0°62 to 0°7. 
168.—Carduelis caniceps, Vigors. (749.) 
This Goldfinch, which is the same as C. orientalis, Evers- 
mann, is very common at an elevation of about 5,000 feet 
from the first week in November to the first week in March; 
in summer it is only found in the district at higher elevations, 
where it breeds. In twenty-four specimens the males have 
the wing's 3°15 to 3°3 inches, and the females 3 to 3:1. 
169.—Metoponia pusilla, Pald. (751.) 
A permanent resident in the district, and common; found 
at 5,000 feet throughout the winter. Birds shot in April, 
when they must have been about nine months old, have only 
one or two red feathers on the head. In twenty-four speci- 
mens, of both sexes, the wings vary from 2°75 to 3:05 inches. 
