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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 both 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 these specimens, 

 and his Highness also verifies their distinctness. 



Propasser pulcherrimus, Hodgson. 



P?-opasser pulcherrimus, Hodgson, Gray's Zool. Misc. (1844), 

 p. 85. 



Hab. Himalaya. In Mus. East India Comp. Brit. Mus., J. Gould, 

 Esq. 



The male differs from P. rodockrous 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 rodochrous 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). 



