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Propasser rodopeplus, part. Hodgson. 
Hab. Nepal. In Mus. East India Comp. Brit. Mus., J. Gould, 
Esq. 
This species may be distinguished from the true P. rodopeplus, by 
its rather smaller and a trifle more pyrrhuline bill; the colour of 
the male above being hair-brown, the feathers centred with blackish, 
and the lesser range of wing-coverts only being crimson-tipped; the 
under-parts, rump and upper tail-coverts, cheeks, forehead, and 
superciliary streak is pale silvery-crimson, the end of the latter and 
the centre of the belly being pure white ; the crimson feathers of the 
head and throat being centred also with white, and the crimson 
colour being deepest at the base of the bill ; whereas, in P. rodopeplus 
the male above is dark crimson-brown, and having doth ranges of 
wing-coverts and the tertiaries pale crimson-tipped. The female of 
P. Thura (which is now for the first time described) may be distin- 
guished from the same sex of P. rodopeplus by being paler above and 
having paler centres to the feathers; the colour of the under-parts 
being considerably more uniform ; having also but faint centres to 
the feathers. P. rodopeplus is a trifle larger than P. Thura. 
The Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte has compared thesespecimens, 
and his Highness also verifies their distinctness. 
PrRopassER PULCHERRIMUS, Hodgson. 
Propasser pulcherrimus, Hodgson, Gray’s Zool. Misc. (1844), 
. 85. 
‘ Hab. Himalaya. In Mus. East India Comp. Brit. Mus., J. Gould, 
Esq. 
The male differs from P. rodochrous in having the forehead, 
superciliary streak, cheeks, throat, and under-parts, with the rump 
of a paler or more silvery-crimson colour, being in some lights very 
silvery ; the upper parts, with the crown, are dusky-brown with pale 
crimson-tinged edges to each feather. The female differs from the 
same sex of P. rodochrous in having the under-parts dusky white, 
instead of rufescent, and above the colours are also less rufescent. 
The size is the same as P. rodochrous, excepting that in P. pul- 
cherrimus the wing is longer in both sexes. 
Remarks.—Both sexes of this species and P. rodochrous were 
sent from Nepal by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., under the name of pul- 
cherrimus, which name, upon examining his original drawings in 
the British Museum, we find refers to the true 7odochrous and not to 
the present species ; but, as that indefatigable naturalist applied the 
name to both birds, we deem it but correct to retain the same for the 
present bird. 
Genus Linota, Bonaparte. 
CannaBINA, Brehm. 
LINOTA BREVIROSTRIS, Gould. 
Linota brevirostris, Gould, Bonap. Geogr. et Comp. List of B. 
p. 34 (1838). 
