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nest, made of coarse grass, in Rnpshu near the Thsomoriri (lake), on 

 the ground, in a little busli of the Tibetan furze ; eggs dirty white or 

 greenish with some dark brown spots. 



222. Callacantiiis Burtoni, Gould, (II. 407). The entire 

 lower plumage is in winter reddish brown, and only the tips of the 

 feathers are crimson ; wings and tail are black, the tips of all the wing- 

 coverts, all wing-and tail-feathers are white, those on the tertiaries 

 slightly tinted with crimson ; the three pairs of outer tail feathers 

 are terminally white on the inner webs, the white decreasing from the 

 outermost, until it becomes reduced on the fourth pair and all the fol- 

 lowing feathers to white tip. This rare species is found occasionally in 

 winter on the lesser ranges, about Kotegurh and Simla between 

 4,000 and 7,000 feet ; in summer it lives in the highest cedar forests 

 on the central range of the N. W. Himalayas. I do not remember it 

 from Tibet, but it very likely migrates farther to the north of the 

 Indus valley in W. Tibet. 



223. Carduelis cantceps, Vig. (II. 408), common in summer all 

 through W. Tibet, wherever any thistles are to be found ; in its habits, 

 flight, song and nidineation it does not differ at all from the European 

 Card, eleyans. During the cold weather, it is very plentifully met 

 with at Kotegurh, near Simla, and all along the hill stations of the 

 lesser ranges. 



224. Ciirysomitris spinoides, V i rj . (II. 409,) prefers the more 

 wooded districts and is in the lower hills not uncommon even during 

 the summer months between 5 and 9,000 feet ; it is, however, found 

 with the former species also in Spiti and in Lahul. 



225. Metoponia pusilla, P a 1 1., (II. 410). The female has the 

 head and ear coverts brown ; there are usually some traces of golden 

 yellow on the forehead, specially in very old females ; the throat is 

 pale, breast black, but the nape is rather ashy ; in other respects it 

 resembles the male. 



This finch comes only in winter to the lesser ranges of the N. W. 

 Himalayas ; it breeds east of Chini on elevations of 10,000 feet and 

 above, as likewise in Spiti, Lahul and Ladak. I found old nests made 

 of thin twigs, laid out with grass and wool, on shrubs or low trees of 

 Jmxiperus excelsa. 



