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Genus URAGUS. 



Loxia apud Pallas, Reis. Russ. Reich s, ii. Anhang, p. 711 (1771). 



Pyrrhula, id. Zoogr. Ross.-As. ii. p. 10 (1811). 



Corythus apud Gould, B. of Eur. iii. pi. ccv. (1837). 



Uragus, Keyseiiing & Blasius, Wirbelth. Europa's, p. 158 (1840). 



The present group contains but three species — Uragus sibiricus, Uragus sanguinolentus, which 

 inhabits Eastern Siberia, the Kurile Islands, Japan, and Manchuria, and Uragus lepidus, which 

 inhabits China. They are allied to the Bullfinches and Carpodaci, and also to some extent to the 

 Linnets, at least as far as their habits are concerned. They inhabit bush-covered places near 

 rivers and on the mountain-slopes, and are good songsters. In their nesting-habits they appear 

 to resemble the birds belonging to the genus Carpodacus, and their nests and eggs resemble 

 those of Carpodacus erythrinus. 



Uragus sibiricus, the type of the genus, has the bill short, stout, bulging at the sides, as 

 high as broad at the base, the upper mandible longer than, and overhanging, the lower mandible ; 

 nostrils basal, hidden by stiff, curved feathers ; wings rather short, the first quill very small and 

 sharp, the fourth and fifth longest ; tail long, slightly forked ; tarsus and toes rather short, the 

 former anteriorly scutellate ; claws moderate, arched, acute; the plumage soft, the prevailing 

 colour in the male rosy red. 



