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central ones blackish, margined with white ; underparts generally rosy red, the lower abdomen white, 

 tinged with rose ; throat, neck, and sides of the head silvery white, tinged with rose, the feathers on 

 the neck lanceolate ; under wing-coverts white ; under tail-coverts pale rosy red : bill horn-brown, the 

 lower mandible paler; legs reddish grey ; iris brown. Total length 6 - 75 inches, culmen 0'38, wing 31, 

 tail 3'6, tarsus 065. 



Adult Female (Tatascheff, January 3rd). Upper parts generally greyish brown, the feathers with a median 

 blackish-brown stripe, except on the rump and upper tail-coverts, which are unstriped and washed with 

 rose ; wings and tail as in the male, but the former without any rose-red ; underparts brownish ash ; 

 the throat and breast striated with blackish brown, the abdomen nearly white ; flanks indistinctly 

 striped and slightly tinged with rose. 



Young Male (Siberia) . Resembles the female, but is paler and somewhat buffy, and less grey in tone of 

 colour, and is more distinctly striped on both the upper and underparts; rump more uniform and 

 washed with rose ; upper tail-coverts pale brown, tinged with rose ; cheeks and ear-coverts showing a 

 trace of the silvery markings of the adult male; centre of abdomen white; wings and tail as in the 

 adult, but the outer feathers marked along the shaft with blackish brown. 



Adult Male in spring (Kultuk, March 2nd). Differs from the male in winter dress in being of a deeper 

 rose tinge, the feathers having shed the major portion of their light margins, and the white margins to 

 the quills and wing-coverts are narrower. 



This lovely Rose-Finch is more especially an inhabitant of the Siberian subregion, and is replaced 

 in Japan and the Kurile Islands by Uragas sanguinolentus, a smaller and more richly coloured 

 form. Its range extends from the Ural Mountains in the west to Eastern Siberia in the east, 

 and in the south to Turkestan, Manchuria, and Northern China. 



Professor Menzbier informs me that late in September, 1882, a flock of about fifteen 

 individuals was observed in the neighbourhood of Orenburg, out of which a female was killed. 

 In Siberia it is, according to Taczanowski (Faune Orn. Sib. Orient, p. 668), " common throughout 

 the whole of Eastern Siberia and a great part of Western Siberia, occurring also in Northern 

 China and Turkestan. The northern and eastern limits of its range in Eastern Siberia are not 

 sufficiently well defined, though it is certainly not found in Kamtschatka, but there are no data 

 relative to the west coast of the Sea of Ochotsk and the district around the mouth of the Ussuri." 



Godlewski writes {fide Taczanowski) as follows : — " We found this species everywhere in the 

 Irkutsk Government to the Sea of Japan, most common in the Southern Baikal and Dauria, and 

 less numerous in other districts. It frequents the bushes on the river-banks and the southern 

 slopes of the mountains which are covered with bushes. It is everywhere resident, though but 

 few remain during the winter, the larger number migrating a little further to the south. On fine 

 days during the month of March the male utters in a low tone a long and melodious song, which 

 ceases when the birds are paired. When the bushes are covered with foliage, that is in June, 

 they build their nests, which are placed in a bush one or two metres above the ground. The 

 nest is easy to find, as the bird remains in the immediate vicinity and utters a low alarm-note, 

 which may be expressed by the syllables fit, fit, fit. . . . The flight of this bird may be heard 

 from afar owing to the quick strong flaps of its wings. In the middle of June they commence 



