38 Notices and Descriptions of various New [No. 169. 



Fringillauda ; and his Procarduelis is also not far removed. A new 

 species of Leucosticte has lately been figured by Mr. Gould, in the 

 'Zoology of the Voyage of the Sulphur,' by the hybrid name griseogenys, 

 under which it is described in P. Z. S. 1843, p. 104. The new Finch 

 may be thus described — 



Fringilla erythrophrys, nobis. Length of male about seven inches ; wing 

 three and seven- eighths ; and tail two and five- eighths ; bill to gape 

 above five-eighths, and tarse three-quarters of an inch. Female 

 rather smaller. Colour of male ruddy-brown above, darkest on the tail- 

 coverts ; below dull buffy-red, mingled with weak crimson on the chin 

 and throat, also on the forehead, and this red passing as a broad streak 

 over the eye, and becoming deeper crimson posteriorly : fine specimens 

 in summer dress have probably the whole under-parts, with the 

 forehead and eye-streak, crimson, and the back deeply tinged with 

 the same : the crown, ear-coverts, wings and tail, are black, not very 

 deep, with the three outer tail-feathers chiefly white towards the 

 tip, and with dark outer webs to near the end; and the other tail- 

 feathers are white-tipped, except the middle pair : wings marked with 

 white, the greater coverts of the primaries having their terminal half white, 

 those of the secondaries broadly tipped with the same, as are also 

 the outer webs of the tertiaries, and (successively more slightly) those of 

 the secondaries and primaries. Bill yellow, and legs light-coloured. 

 The female is plain brown, paler and tinged with yellowish below, darker 

 and a little tinged with yellowish on the crown, and having a bright 

 saffron eye-streak, and duller saffron- coloured or ochreous forehead ; 

 the wings and tail are marked as in the male, but the white is less 

 developed; and the back is yellowish- brown. This is a true restricted 

 Fringilla, of the form of Fr. montif ring ilia y &c. ; but having obvious 

 affinities for the red Finches (Carpodacus, &c), and shewing also a 

 marked relationship for Coccothraustes, and even for Carduelis* 



* Lord A. Hay informs me of what he suspects to be a new Finch, and terms 

 Fringilla rubrifrons, procured during his sojourn at Simla. " Size very small ; and 

 colour olive-green, striate and mingled with dirty yellow : forehead red." The parti- 

 cular subdivision of Finches is not stated. 



There is also a very curious-looking, diminutive, Finch-like species, figured among 

 Dr. McClelland's drawings of Assamese birds. The size and plumage are very Wren- 

 like • with a bill approaching in form that of a Chaffinch : colouring deep isabelline or 

 buff, with dusky rays on the wings and tail, and the primaries edged with white. The 

 immediate affinities are by no means obvious. 



