CARPODACUS. 



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Melophus melanicterus. Lath. ; Gould. G. B. pi. ; Jerd. 2nd 

 Su^pl. Cat. 182; id.B. Ind. ii. p. 380, No. 724; Hume, Str. F. iii. 

 498; vi. 409; vii. 517; Murray, Sh: F. vii. 113. Emberiza cristata, 

 Vig. P. Z. S. 1831 ; (the female) Emberiza erythroptera, Jard. and 

 Selby, III. Orn. pi. 132. — The Ceested BLiCK Bunting. 



Entire head, neck, back, scapulars, rump, uppei* tail-coverts, chin, 

 throat, breast, and under surface, including the under tail-coverts, 

 glossy black, unglossed on the latter; lesser wing-ooverts black; median 

 and greater series, primaries, secondaries and tail dark cinnamon; the 

 primaries, secondaries and tail feathers tipped dasky brown ; bill pale 

 brown, darkish on the upper mandible; legs reddish brown; irides 

 dark brown. 



Length. — 6"5 inches, wing 3-25, tail 2'75, bill at front 0-5. The 

 Female is dusky brown, the feathers edged paler; under surface ruf- 

 escent white ; wings duller or pale cinnamon. 



Hab. — Sind, Rajputana, N. Gruzerat, Ooncan, Deccan, Nepaul and 

 Tenasserim ; also Central and Southern India. 



Sub-Family, FRINGtLLIN^; PYRRHULINiB.— ffra;/. 



Bill variable in form and size, thick, sloping to the sides, conical ; 

 tarsi moderate. 



Gen. Carpodacus. — Kaup. 



Bill tumid, rather longer than in Pyrrhula, and compressed at the 

 tip, notched near its base ; tail forked. 



Carpodacus erythrinus. Pall. Zoogr. t. 36, 1 ; Viell. 0. C. t. 65 ; 

 Naum vogt. t. 113, 1,2; Gould. B. Bur. pi. 206; Bp. Lax. t. 14; 

 Gray, Handlist B. 7507, p. 101; Blf. East. Pers. ii. 2, 250; Jerd. B. Ind. 

 ii. p. 398, No. 738; Murray, Hdbk., Zool, ^c, iSwcZ, p. 185.— The 

 Common Rose-Finch. 



Male, Winter Plumage. — Head, throat, breast, moustachial stripe, 

 rump and flanks rose colour, brighter and deeper on the throat, head 

 and breast ; back and scapulars ruddy brown, roseate on the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts; wing-coverts tipped with ruddy brown, forming two 

 pale bars on the wings ; tertiaries margined with pale brown ; the quills 

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

 breast and rump become brilliant crimson. The Female is olive brown 

 with dark streaks ; the tips of the greater and lesser wing-coverts 

 whitish, forming two conspicuous bauds on the wings ; below paler 

 brown, albescent on the throat, the middle of the belly and under tail- 

 coverts darker and somewhat streaked on the breast and flanks. — 

 Jerdon, B. Ind. p. 398. 



Bill yellowish brown ; feet horny brown ; irides light brown. . 



Length. — 5"5 inches, wing 3'25, tail 2'25. 



Hab. — Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, Punjab, N. W. 

 Provinces, Oudh, Central India, Rajputana, Kutch, Guzerat, Concan, 

 Deccan, and S. India, 



