124 PASSERES. 



It resembles the Common Rose-Finch in having the tail much 

 shorter than the wing, but it differs both from that species and from 

 the Japanese Rose-Finch in having neither pearly-white plumes on 

 the head nor white bars across the wings. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, iv. pi. 195. 



The sole claim of the Scarlet Rose-Finch to be regarded as a 

 Japanese bird rests upon an example in the Pryer collection, which 

 was bought alive in the Yokohama market (Blakiston and Pryer, 

 Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 175). The clean condition of its 

 feet and the brilliancy of the deep scarlet breast and throat look like 

 a wild bird, and the fact that its wings are much abraded also point 

 to its not having become used to a cage ; but it may nevertheless 

 have been imported from China. 



This species breeds in the subarctic regions, wherever forests are 

 to be found, from Finland to Kamtschatka and further south at high 

 elevations. It winters in India, Burma, and China, and has twice 

 been known to wander as far as the British Islands. 



99. CARPODACUS SANGUINOLENTUS. 



(JAPANESE ROSE-FINCH.) 



PyrrJiula sanguinolentus, Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 92 

 (1847). 



The Japanese Rose-Finch is the smallest of the three Rose-Finches 

 found in Japan, but it has a relatively longer tail (wing from carpal 

 joint about 2| inches, tail slightly longer) . It has two very con- 

 spicuous white bars across the wing, and pearly-white plumes on the 

 forehead and throat. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 54 

 (male), pi. 54 b (female). 



The Japanese Rose-Finch is a common resident of the group of 

 islands to which it was formerly supposed to be peculiar. Mr. Snow 

 obtained it from the Kurile Islands (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. 

 As. Soc. Japan, p. 174) ; and in the Swinhoe collection there are two 

 examples from Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1874, p. 160). In the Paris 

 Museum there are examples procured by TAbbe Fauire near Aomori 

 in Northern Hondo ; and in the Pryer collection there are nine from 

 the neighbourhood of Yokohama. 



