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SERINUS PUSILLUS. 
(RED-FRONTED FINCH.) 
Passer pusillus, Pall. Zoogy. Rosso-As. ii. p. 18, tab. xiii. (1811). 
Serinus pusillus (Pall.), Brandt, Phys. Math. Acad. St. Petersb. i. p. 366 (1843). 
Fringilla rubrifrons, Hay, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xv. p. 38 (1846). 
Emberiza aurifrons, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xvi. p. 476 (1847). 
Serinus aurifrons, Blyth, Cat. Mus. As. Soc. p. 125. no. 681 (1849). 
fringilla pusilla (Pall.), Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 872 (1849). 
Pyrrhula pusilla (Pall.), Degl. Orn. Kur. i. p. 194 (1849). 
Emberiza auriceps, Blyth (ubi?), fide Cab. J. f. Orn. 1854, Erinnerungsschr. p. 94. 
Oraegithus pusillus (Pall.), Cab. tom. cit. p. 94, pl. 1. 
Metoponia pusilla (Pall.), Bp. Cat. Parzud. p. 3 (1856). 
Figure notabiles. 
Pallas, 7. ¢.; Cab. l. ¢. 
g ad. fronte et pileo antico rubris: capite reliquo et guld nigris, nuchd brunneo tincté: dorso et scapularibus 
nigris, plumis flavido et albo-cervino marginatis: uropygio rubro-aurantiaco: supracaudalibus dorso 
concoloribus: cauda nigra, rectricibus centralibus flavo-albido marginatis, reliquis extus flavo margi- 
natis: remigibus nigricantibus, primariis extus flavo et secundariis albido marginatis: tectricibus 
majoribus et medianis nigris, conspicué albido et flavo apicatis, tectricibus minoribus aurantiacis et ad 
basin nigricantibus: corpore subtus flavido, pectore et hypochondriis nigro notatis et striatis: rostro 
et pedibus nigris: iride fusca. 
2 ad. mari similis sed ubique coloribus sordidioribus et plaga frontali minus extensa. 
Juv. adulto similis, sed capite brunneo nec nigro, pileo vix nigro-fusco striato, fronte inconspicué aurantiaco 
notata: gula ima et pectore nigris, plumis conspicué flayo-albido marginatis. 
Adult Male (Giaour Keuy, Taurus, 27th April). Forehead and fore part of the crown bright flame-red ; 
rest of the head and entire throat black, the hinder portion of the crown sullied with brown; back and 
scapulars black, all the feathers broadly margined with buffy white or pale yellow; rump bright orange ; 
upper tail-coverts like the back; tail black, the central rectrices margined with yellowish white, and 
the remainder externally edged with yellow; quills blackish, the primaries externally margined with 
yellow, and the secondaries with white; larger and median coverts black, broadly tipped with white 
and pale yellow, the lesser wing-coverts blackish on the basal part and orange on the rest of the feather, 
the dark bases being almost hidden; underparts below the throat pale yellow gradually fading into 
yellowish white towards the vent, the breast deeper yellow and marked with black; flanks striped with 
black; bill and legs black; iris dark brown. Total length about 4°5 inches, culmen 0°32, wing 2°82, 
tail 2:1, tarsus 0°85. 
Adult Female (Giaour Keuy, 27th April). Resembles the male; but all the colours are much duller, and 
the red patch on the forehead is smaller. 
