AVES. 41 



Genus CARPODACUS. 



76. Carpodacus ebythhinus. 



Loxia erythrina, Pall. N. Comm. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. xiv. p. 587, pi. 23. fig. 1 (1770). 



Carpodacus erythrinus (Pall.); Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873); Hume & Renders. Lahore to 

 Yark. p. 259 (1873) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 245; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 170 (1876) ; Tacz.Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, i. p. 181 (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 181 (1877) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 461, 1880, p. Q7 -, Bidd. Ibis, 1881, p. 83; Scully, ibid. p. 577; C. Swinb. Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 114; Severtz. Ibis, 1883, p. 10; Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Yer. Wien, 1883, p. 90; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 391 (1888) ; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 80 (1889) ; Gates, 

 Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 219 (1890). 



Nos. 395, 397, 401, s ad. Mataian, August 14, 1873. 

 Nos. 414, 415, ? ad. Mataian, August 15, 1873. 



No. 410, 6 ad. Mataian, August 15, 1873. — Iris brown; bill horny; feet horny brown. 

 Length 6*5 inches, wing 3*5, tail 2-45, tarsus 0*7; expanse 10*4; bill from forehead 

 0*45, from gape 0*55. 

 No. 429, s ad. Tashgam, August 17, 1873. 

 Shargol, August 20, 1873. 

 Kharbu, August 21, 1873. 

 Leh, August 29, 1873. 

 Leh, August 30, 1873. 

 Leh, August 31, 1873. 

 Leh, September 2, 1873. 

 Leh, September 4, 1873. 

 $ juv. Tanksi, September 17, 1873. 

 Chogra, September 21, 1873. 

 . S.E. of Chiklik, June 4, 1874. 

 No. 1861, c? ad. Duba, June 6, 1874. 



In his ' Diary ' Dr. Stoliczka notes that this species was very common at the Gulab-bagh in 

 Leh on the 31st August, 1873. 



Colonel Biddulph sends the following note : — "First met with directly we crossed the 

 Zoji-la into Ladak about the middle of August, and we found them extraordinarily numerous 

 between Dras and the Zoji-la in July on our return. The species was seen nowhere else, 

 except in the Kulustan valley in June, and there it was common." 



Dr. Scully writes : — " This species was first observed at Sanju, where it was flitting about 

 among the trees ; it was .«een on several occasions in the hills among the bushes, and was 

 tolerably numerous in the Sololachne bushes on the banks of the Karakash river near 

 Shahidula. It had a tolerably loud sweet note." Dr. Henderson states that this Carpodacus was 

 very common in Kashmir in June and July, from the Sind Valley ; and in Ladak to the first 

 pass beyond Leh. The birds were in small flocks, and only males were observed, so that the 

 hen birds were probably sitting. It was not observed by him in the high desert regions, and 

 when the Expedition returned none were seen in either Ladak or Kashmir. 



No. 



477, 6 ad. 



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494, a ad. 



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471, $ ad. 



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588, S ad. 



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605, c? ad. 



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607, c? ad. 



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622, c? ad. 



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1. 717, 718, 



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773, juv. 



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1856, S ad 



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