12 BOSY BULLFINCH. 



of Pallas, the feathers of the vertex and throat have a silvery scaly 

 appearance, and the barbs of the feathers, as well as their points, 

 have a bright shining white colour. The shoulders and upper part of 

 the back are dark brown, spotted with red streaks; the dark brown 

 feathers of this part have borders of carmine red; the greater feathers 

 of the shoulders have also white borders. All the wing feathers have 

 a dull dark brown ground; the lesser wing feathers carmine red borders, 

 the greater, broad white borders, with rosy red tips. The greater 

 wing coverts rosy red borders with white tips, forming two oblique 

 borders of white across the wings. The upper tail coverts bright 

 red, with dark brown arrow-spots, and the darker brown tail feathers, 

 of which the outermost are merely somewhat lighter, have rosy red 

 borders; the underneath wing and tail feathers are light brown 

 grey; the under wing coverts dirty white^ spotted with brown, having, 

 at the edges, a tinge of rosy red. 



"In the autumn plumage, the borders of the wing and tail feathers 

 are broader, shading into a brownish white, and in the back and 

 shoulder the red bordered feathers have besides brownish white edges. 

 The splendid red is there also darker, and acquires its brilliancy by 

 degrees under the influence of air and sun. 



"Probably the young male is not so beautifully red, and in the 

 first year perhaps not at all so as in the preceding species, fP. ery- 

 thrina,J and the females of both are certainly very similar. I have 

 only seen two male stuiFed specimens of this splendid bird to examine 

 and compare with P. erythrina and P. purpurea, the Bouvreil violet 

 de la Caroline of Brisson." 



Of its nidification nothing is known. 



It has been figured by Pallas, Zoog., t. 4:2; Gould, B. of E., 207; 

 Naumann, B. of E., t, 113; Bonaparte, Lox, t. 19-20. 



