URAGUS SIBIBICUS. 



(SIBERIAN ROSE-FINCH.) 



Loxia sibirica, Pallas, Eeis. Euss. Eeichs, ii. Anh. p. 711 (1771). 



Siberian Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. part i. p. 124 (1783). 



Pyrrhula caudata, Pall. Zoogr. Eoss.-As. ii. p. 10, tab. xxxvii. (1811). 



Pyrrhula longicauda, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 340 (1820). 



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



Corythus sibiricus (Pall.), Bonap. Comp. List, p. 38 (1838). 



Pyrrhula (Uragus) sibirica (Pall.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. xl (1840). 



Uragus sibiricus (Pall.), Gray, Gen. of B. ii. p. 387 (1844). 



Erythrothorax caudatus (Pall.), Brebm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 276. 



Pyrrhula sibirica (Pall.), Borggr. Vogelf. Norddeutschl. p. 73 (1869). 



Figuras notabiles. 



Gould, B. of Eur. pi. ccv.; Werner, Atlas, Granivores, pi. xxxv.; Bonap. & Scblegel, 

 Monogr. Lox. pis. xxxiv., xxxv. ; Gould, B. of Asia, v. pi. xxvii. 



<J ad. ptil. Mem. frcmte lorisque intense rubro-roseis : capite et collo argenteis roseo tinctis : dorso roseo- 

 albidoj plumis medio fuscis, uropygio et supracaudalibus rosaceis : alis nigricantibus, plumis conspicue 

 albo margiuatis et tectricibus alarum conspicue albo terminatis, tectricibus minoribus roseo tinctis : 

 rectricibus mediis nigricantibus albido marginatis, externis fere omnino albis : corpore subtus rosaceo, 

 abdomine imo albo-roseo lavato, subcaudalibus pallide rosaceis : rostro corneo-fusco, niandibula 

 pallidiore : pedibus rufescenti-cinereis : iride fusea. 



<$ ad. ptil. ast. magis rosaceo-ruber, remigibus et tectricibus alarum minus albo marginatis. 



? ad. capite et corpore supr& f usco-cinereis, nigro-fusco striatis, sed uropygio et supracaudalibus nee striatis 

 et roseo lavatis : corpore subtus pallide fusco-cinereo, abdomine fere albo, gutture et pectore nigro-fusco 

 striatis : hypochondriis indistincte striatis et vix roseo tinctis : alis et cauda sicut in mare coloratis, sed 

 illis non roseo tinctis. 



<J juv. f ceminse similis, sed pallidior et cervino tincto, ubique magis distincte striato : uropygio non striato et 

 roseo tincto, supracaudalibus pallide fuscis rosaceo tinctis : capitis lateribus indistincte argenteo notatis : 

 alis et cauda sicut in adulto coloratis, sed rectricibus externis in medio fusco-nigro notatis. 



Adult Male in winter (River Manas-Darja, December). Forehead and lores rich rosy red; the rest of the 

 head and neck silvery white, tinged with rose ; back rose-red, striped with dark brown, the feathers 

 with silvery- white margins ; rump and upper tail-coverts rosy red ; wings blackish, all the quills broadly 

 margined with white, these margins being much broader on the secondaries ; wing-coverts blackish, 

 broadly terminated with white, the least coverts tinged with rosy red ; outer tail-feathers white, the 



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