224 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxii. 



Fauiily FKINGILLID^. 



EMBERIZA CIA Linnaeus. 

 Emhenza cia Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., 12th ed., I, 1766, i). 310. 



Two specimens from Lamayuru, Ladak, taken June 26, 1897, at 12,000 

 feet altitude, "Bill black, leaden beneath at base; feet pale llesliy 

 brown, with a reddish tinge; claws dark horn brown. — Common on the 

 bare stony hillsides and about villages up to 13,000 feet; always in pairs 

 at this season." 



These birds are typical cia, not straclieyi, which Dr. Richmond sur- 

 mised^ to be the breeding form of the region. 



EMBERIZA LEUCOCEPHALA Gmel in. 



Emberiza leiicocephalos Gmelin, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., XV, 1771, 

 p. 480, pi. XXIII, fig. 3. 



A pair of winter birds from the Valley of Cashmere. "Upper man- 

 dible dark horny brown, lower mandible horny blue; feet pale fleshy 

 brown. Length of male, 7^^ inches; female, 6f inches." 



CARPODACUS SEVERTZOVI Sharpe. 



Carpodaciis severtzovl Siiarpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 354. 



Two breeding specimens from Upshi, Valley of the Indus, Ladak, at 

 11,000 feet. "Iris brown; bill pale brownish horny above, whitish 

 horny beneath; feet in male black, in female dark fleshy brown." Dr. 

 Abbott notes that he found the species " in pairs on the stony hillsides." 



CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS (Pallas). 



Loxia erytlirina Pallas, Nov. Comm. Acad. Sci. Imp. Petrop., XIV, Pt. 1, 1770, 



p. 587, pi. XXIII, fig. 1.' 

 Carpodaciis eryihrinus Gray, Geu. Birds, II, 1844, p. 384. 



One male from Tashgam, Ladak. "Iris brown; upper mandible 

 horny brown, lower mandible dull yellowish horny; feet fleshy brown; 

 claws horn brown." 



From the specimens available it is indicated that the birds of this 

 region are entitled to subsiDecific recognition by reason of their decidedly 

 brighter colors; but this material is too meager to justify a formal 

 separation. 



SERINUS PUSILLUS (Pallas). 



Passer pasillus Pallas, Zoogr. Russo-Asiat., FI, 1826, No. xliii, p. 28. 

 Serinus piisiUiis Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. St. Petersb., I, 1843, p. 366. 



Two examples, from Shooshot and from Shergol, Indus Valley, 

 Ladak, respectively, both taken at an altitude of 10,000 feet. "Iris 



' Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIIl, 1896, p. 465. 



