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plumage. Length 9 inches, wing from bend 5 inches, and tail, which is slightly forked, 

 3 inches to end of exterior feathers ; bill, in this young bird, nearly 1 inch long 

 from forehead, and more than | inch deep : plumage very like that of a nestling 

 Goldfinch (Carduelis elegans), tinged with yellow on the abdomen, and especially 

 on the under tail-coverts which are spotless yellow; also on the inner webs of the 

 central dorsal feathers, forming the same mesial streak along the back as in a Siskin 

 or Redpole Linnet, a young Crossbill, &c. ; the rest of the back, scapularies, rump 

 and upper tail-coverts, dusky, each feather margined with brown, which passes into 

 greenish towards the tail; tertiaries shaped as in a European Goldfinch, and broadly 

 edged with yellowish-white towards the extremity of their outer webs ; primaries and 

 secondaries slightly edged, and their greater and smaller coverts tipped with the 

 same, the latter forming two narrow bars across the wing; crown and neck pale buff 

 at the bases of the feathers, which have each a large dusky spot at its tip, causing the 

 crown to appear of this colour; a pale streak over the eye, and a narrow one tinged 

 with yellow from the gape, above which latter a broad dusky streak passes through the 

 eye, and below it is a large triangular spot of the same; under- parts pale fulvous, or 

 deep fulvous-white, becoming gradually more yellowish to the tail-coverts, each 

 feather, excepting on the throat and middle of the belly, having an oval dusky spot; 

 aline of such spots proceeds also from each corner of the lower mandible down the sides 

 of the front of the neck : a few new feathers which were growing on the breast are 

 brighter-coloured, with the spot very much reduced in size ; hence the specimen 

 would appear to have been a female, according to the description furnished by Mr. 

 Hodgson. That naturalist described another species from the Himalaya, as C. 

 carnipes ; a third from the same mountain regions exists in the C. icterioides, Vi- 

 gors (P. Z. S. 183J, 8, and figured in Gould's Century) ; and a fourth, from the 

 neighbourhood of Canton, is figured by Messrs. Jardine and Selby ("Illustrations 

 of Ornithology," pi. lxiii), as C. melanura ; besides which, the European C. vulgaris 

 is included in M. Temminck's Catalogue of the birds of Japan. 



Pyrgita cinnamomea, Gould (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1835, 185), male and female — We 

 before possessed specimens of this handsome Sparrow from Bootan, but the pi'esent are 

 considerably more brightly coloured, and their plumage less worn : the sides of the neck 

 of the male are pale clear yellow, divided by the broad black gular streak ; and the 

 middle of the abdomen also is much tinged with the same; whole upper plumage and 

 fore-part of the wings, anterior to the white tips of their smaller coverts, bright cinna- 

 mon-rufous, marked as in other Sparrows on the middle of the back : the female has 

 also a slight tinge of this rufous, especially on the sides of the neck, the rump, and the 

 fore-part of the wings, and there is a faint tendency to yellowish beneath ; one of two 

 specimens of this sex has the dark gular streak of the male moderately distinct. I am 

 acquainted with five species of true Pyrgita inhabiting India (one of them new), but 

 have seen none corresponding to the Passer Indicus of Messrs. Jardine and Selby 

 fill. Orn. pi. cxvii). 



Argus giganteus, Tern. An exceedingly fine specimen of the female, which is much 

 rarer in collections than the male, and bears a far higher price among the dealers. 



*Cryptonyx coronatus, Tem. ; male and female. 



*Otis. Two specimens of Bustards, alleged to be the Floriken and the Leek of 

 Indian sportsmen : much confusion prevails respecting the application of these two 



