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should be placed with these Rose-finches, as Bonaparte has done, 

 or elsewhere, I have no means of deciding. 



The next two birds have the bill more Finch-like, and may be 

 said to grade into the true Finches. 



Gen. Procarduelis, Hodgson. 



Syn. Pyrrha, Caban. 



Char. — Bill longer and more slender than in Propasser, but 

 less acutely pointed and compressed at the tip than in the Gold- 

 finches ; wings rather long, with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th primaries 

 sub-equal, the 1st a little shorter; general form elongated; colours 

 as in Propasser, but deeper. 



746. Procarduelis nipalensis, Hodgson. 



J. A. S., XII, 955— As. Res. XIX, 157— Blyth, Cat. 657— 

 Horsf., Cat. 749 — Linota saturata, Blyth, J. A. S., XI. 192 — 

 (the male) — L. fusca, Bl., (the female) — Ka-biya, Lepch. 



The dark Rose-finch. 



Descr. — Male, above, neck and breast sooty or dusky, strongly 

 tinted with dark sanguineous blossom-red ; forehead, a line 

 over the eye to the occiput, chin, throat, breast, and belly, pure 

 blossom red ; quills and tail-feathers sooty brown, more or less 

 tinged on the outer margin with the red hue of the upper surface. 



Bill brown ; irides red brown ; legs fleshy brown. Length 6^, 

 to 7 inches ; extent 1(H ; wing 3| ; tail 2|. 



The female is olive-brown above ; below, from the chin to the 

 breast, dirty yellowish ; from breast to tail white ; wings and tail 

 dusky brown ; wing-coverts and tertiaries externally margined and 

 tipped with dirty yellowish. 



This fine Finch is found in Nepal and Sikim. Hodgson says that 

 it inhabits the .Central and Northern hills of Nepal. It is common at 

 Darjeeling, in the cold weather only, in moderately large flocks, feed- 

 ing on the roads sometimes, or among the ferns and brush-wood. 



The next bird is a somewhat remarkable form, and is slightly 

 allied, in its coloration, to IJamatospiza sipah?', but its more Finch- 

 like bill, and feet fitted for terrene habits, have influenced me in 



