CARDUELIS CANICEPS. 



(HIMALAYAN GOLDFINCH.) 



Passer carduelis, var., Pall. Zoogr. Ross. -As. ii. p. 16 (1811). 



Carduelis caniceps, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 23. 



Fringilla orientalis, Eversmann, Add. Pall. Zoogr. Poss.-As. fasc. ii. p. 9 (1841). 



Fringilla caniceps (Vig.), Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 371 (1849). 



Carduelis subulatus, Cab. in Ersch & Grub. Encycl. 1st sect. vol. 50. p. 217 (1849). 



Carduelis orientalis (Eversm.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 518 (1850). 



Fringilla {Carduelis) orientalis (Eversm.), Gray, Hand-1. of B. ii. p. 80. no. 7172 (1870). 



Fringilla [Carduelis] caniceps (Vigors), Gray, ut supra, no. 7173 (1870). 



Carduelis major caniceps, Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 424. 



" Shim, Hind. ; Saira, Kashm." (Oates). 



Figures notahiles. 



Gould, Cent. Himal. B. pi. xxxiii. fig. 1 ; Royle, 111. Bot. Himal. i. pi. viii. fig. 2 ; Gould, 

 B. of Asia, v. pi. xvii. 



<J ad. capite, collo et corpore supra pallide fusco-cinereis, uropygio pallidiore : supracaudalibus albis : fronte, 

 facie et mento coccineis : cauda absque nigris, remigibus basi fiavis, secundariis intimis in pogonio 

 interno albo notatis : rectricibus quatuor centralibus albo apicatis, extimis in pogonio interno macula 

 magna alba notatis : subtus albus, pectore sordide cinereo lavato : rostro carneo-griseo, versus apicem 

 fusco : pedibus pallide carneo-fuscis : iride fusca. 



$ ad. mari similis, sed capite minus coccineo notato et alis minus flavo notatis. 



Adult Male (E. Tian-shan, January 19tb). Upper parts pale brownisb asb, becoming paler on the rump; 

 upper tail-coverts white ; wings as in C. elegans, but on the innermost secondary there is a long white 

 patch on the inner web, the next two with a smaller white patch on the terminal portion of the inner 

 web ; tail black, the outermost feather with a long white patch on the inner web, the four central 

 rectrices broadly tipped with white; forehead, chin, and a line round the base of the beak crimson; 

 underparts white, washed with pale ashy brown on the throat and breast: bill fleshy grey, darker at 

 the tip; legs pale brown ; iris brown. Total length about 5 - 5 inches, culmen O6o, wing 3"3, tail 2'2, 

 tarsus 06. 



Adult Female (E. Tian-shan, January 26th). Resembles the male, but the crimson on the head is paler 

 and less extensive, and the yellow on the wings is less developed. 



This, the eastern representative of our Common Goldfinch, has been met with as an occasional 

 straggler as far west as the Ural, and ranges from Transcaspia eastward through Afghanistan to 

 the Himalayas, and through Central Asia to Siberia in the north. 



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