1886.] MR. SHAKPJi ON BIRDS IN THE HUME COLLECl'ION. 353 



beak crimson-red. Had just caught and partly eaten a large 

 spider." 



Fam. Trogonid.e. 



Harpactes duvauceli, Temm. ; Gould, Monogr. Trogon. 2nd 

 ed. pi. 40. 



"No. l.T. Male. Irides brown ; bill pure cobalt-blue. Hills up 

 to about 2000 feet." 



7. Notes on Specimens in the Hume Collection of Birds. 

 By R. BowDLER Sharpe, F.L.S. &c. 



[Received June 18, 1886.] 

 (Continued from p. 97.) 



Contents. 



No. 2. On some Rose-Finches, p. 353. 



No. 3. On Lalagc mehmoihorax, p. 354. 



No. 4. On some Flycatchers of the Genus Siphia, p. 354. 



No. 2. On some Rose-Finches. 



In 1881 Colonel Biddulph (Ibis, 1881, p. 156, pi. vi.) noticed 

 the differences between the large Rose-Fiiiches of Yarkand and 

 those of the Grilgit district, in which he had been resident for 

 some time, and named the former bird Propasser rhodometopus. 

 Having lately had occasion to examine the series of Rose-Finches in 

 the Hume Collection, I was able to discriminate the P. rhodometopus 

 of Biddulph as distinct from P. rhodochlamys of Indian authors, from 

 the Himalayas. The two sj)ecies are very nearly allied, but the 

 Yarkand bird has silvery pointed fe.ithers on the forehead, which 

 the Himalayan bird has not. 



At the same time Colonel Biddulph has, I believe, fallen into an 

 error in his identification of the true P. rhodochlamys of Brandt, 

 which was described from the Altai Mountains, and appears to me 

 to be identical with the Yarkand bird, but not with P. rhodochlamys 

 (so-called) from the Himalayas. 



Brandt in his original description (Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Sci. 

 St. Peter^b. 18-13, p. 363) distinctly says " Pennae frontales, 

 verticis, gutturis &c. acuminatse;" and this seems to point undoubt- 

 edly to the species afterwards called P. rhodometopus by Biddulph. 

 Consequently the Himalayan species must require a separate desig- 

 nation, which is forthcoming in Propasser grandis (Blyth, J. A. S. 

 Beng. xviii. p. 810). 



Mr. Seebohm has lent me specimens of Carpodacus rubicillus 

 from the Caucasus, and on comparing them with examples of so- 

 called C. rubicillus from Turkestan and Yarkand, which have the 

 back almost entirely uniform, and narrow black shaft-streaks on the 

 under tail-coverts, I find that the two species are not identical. 



