398 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



dark brown ; primaries and secondaries brown, edged with pale 

 brown. 



Bill with the upper mandible dark brown, lower one fleshy horn 

 colour; feet dark brown. Length about 8£ inches; wing 4f ; 

 tail 4 ; tarsus 1. 



Latham states that this fine species chiefly occurs in the colder 

 parts of the Caucasian Mountains, feeding principally on the 

 berries of the Sea Buckthorn, Hippopkae vliamnoides ; that it is 

 frequently seen in large flocks, and that its note is not unlike that 

 of a Bull-finch. It has only been obtained, in India, in the far 

 N. W. Himalayas, Mr. Blyth having received one from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Pind Dadun-khan, and it has also been found in Cash- 

 mere. It varies much in the brightness of its plumage, accordino- 

 to the season. It is probably tins species which Adams alludes 

 to in his Birds of Cashmere, No. 68, as being like Carp. 

 erythrinus, but larger, and of a brighter red, and only seen in 

 flocks, high up near the snow. 



738. Carpodacus erythrinus, Pallas. 



Loxia, apucl Pallas, Zoog. Boss. As. pi. 36 — Blyth, Cat. 

 658— Horsf., Cat, 686— Gould, Birds of Europe, pi. 206 — 

 Hoemorrhous roseus, apud Jeiidon, Cat. 195 — C. roseus, apud 

 Adams, Birds of Cashmere, No. 67 — L. totta, Gmelin — Pyrrhuli- 

 nota roseata, Hodgson — Tuti, H. — Amonga tuti, in Nepal — Chota 

 tuti in Sylhet — Phulin-pho, Lepch. — Yedru-picliike, or Yedru-ji- 

 nowayij Tel. 



The common Rose-finch. 



Descr. — Male, in winter plumage, h;is the head, throat, breast, 

 moustachial stripe, rump, and flanks of the abdomen, roseate color, 

 deepest upon the crown, throat, and breast, and paling on the 

 flanks ; upper plumage generally brown, more or less ruddy, 

 brightening towards the rump and on the upper tail-coverts ; the 

 wing-coverts tipped with ruddy brown, forming two pale bars on 

 the wings ; tertiaries margined with pale brown ; quills and tail- 

 feathers with ruddy edgings. In summer the crown, throat, 

 breast, and rump become brilliant crimson. The female is pale 



