COCCOTHKAUSTES CARNEIPES. 



(WHITE- WINGED GROSBEAK.) 



Coccothraustes carnipes, Hodgson, Asiat. Research, xix. p. 151 (1836). 

 Coccothraustes speculigerus, Brandt, Bull. Acad. St. Petersb. ix. no. 196, p. 11 (1842). 

 Resperipliona speculigerus (Brandt), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 506 (1850). 

 Mycerobas carnipes (Hodgs.), Gould, B. of Asia, pl.xxi. (1851). 

 "■Coccothraustes albispecularis, aliq.," G. E. Gray, Hand-1. of B. ii. p. 88 (1870). 

 Pycnoramphus carnipes (Hodgs.), Hume, Stray Feath. viii. p. 108 (1879). 

 Mycerobas carneipes (Hodgs.), Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1879, p. 448. 

 Pycnorhamphus carneipes (Hodgs.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 47 (1888). 



Figtcra unica. 

 Gould, B. of Asia, v. pi. xxi. 



£ ad. capite, collo, dorso, gula, gutture, pectore et abdomine supremo nigris, fumoso tinctis, loris intense nigris : 

 alis et cauda, nigris, remigibus extus anguste albido rnarginatis, primariis (extimo excepto) ad basin in 

 pogonio externo albis, plaga magna formantibus : secundariis intimis et tectricibus majoribus viridi- 

 flavo terminatis : uropygio, abdomine imo, hypochondriis et subcaudalibus viridi-flavis : supracaudalibus 

 nigris, viridi-flavo marginatis : tibiae plurais cinereo-fuscis : subalaribus et axillaribus cinereis : maxilla 

 fusca, mandibula albido-comea, : pedibus pallide fusco-carneis : iride fusca. 



$ ad. mari similis, sed ubique sordidior et magis fusco-cinereo tincta : capitis lateribus, gula et pectore 

 albido striatis. 



Adult Male (near Kokand, February 13tb). Head, neck, back, throat, breast, and upper abdomen dark 

 sooty black, tbe lores deeper black ; wings and tail black, the quills externally margined, very narrowly, 

 with dull white, all the primaries, but the first, white at the base on the outer web, forming a 

 conspicuous white patch; inner secondaries and the innermost larger wing-coverts broadly tipped 

 with greenish yellow on the outer web ; rump, lower abdomen and flanks, and under tail-coverts 

 greenish yellow ; upper tail-coverts black, margined with greenish yellow ; thighs ashy brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy grey : upper mandible brownish, the lower mandible whitish horn- 

 colour ; legs pale fleshy brown; iris hair-brown. Total length about 8'7 inches, culmen 0"7, gape 0'9, 

 wing 4"8, tail 4*0, tarsus l'l. 



Adult Female (near Kokand, February 1st). Resembles the male, but is duller and greyer in colour, the 

 portions of the plumage which in the male are black being ashy brown, and the cheeks, throat, and 

 breast are striated with dull white. 



A male from the Kopepet-dagh, obtained on the 27th July, is in moult, and has the plumage worn and 

 paler than in the male above described. 



