NEW SPECIES OF COCCOTHRAUSTES. 



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CarduelinjE. Genus Carduelis. 

 Species new, C. Nipalensis, nobis. 



Form of the bill as in Carduelis Caniceps and in the common Gold- 

 finch: but the tarsi higher, and wings and tail apparently longer and 

 stronger ; wings to the middle of the tail, decidedly acuminated with the 

 3rd quill clearly longest; rectrices strong, broad, divaricating, acutely- 

 pointed ; the whole slightly gradated from above, and the tail consequent- 

 ly, distinctly though trivially forked ; tarsi elevate, finely scaled ; toes 

 long, slender, and compressed, with slender and very acute nails. 



Colour and size of the male : — above, and the neck and breast entirely 

 sooty black, or dusky strongly tinted with a dark sanguineous blossom red ; 

 forehead, a line over the eye to the occiput, the chin and throat, breast and 

 belly, pure blossom red ; under tail coverts paler and picked out with dusky ; 

 remiges and rectrices pure sooty brown, more or less touched on the outer 

 margins with the red hue of the upper surface ; bill and legs fleshy brown ; 

 iris red brown : size to 7 inches by 10|^ to 11, and f oz. 



Female rather less above olive brown ; below, from chin to breast, 

 dirty yellowish ; from breast to tail, white ; wings and tail dusky brown ; 

 the coverts of the former, with the tertiaries, externally margined or tipt 

 with dirty yellowish ; bill, legs and iris, as in the male but obscurer. 

 Habitat central and northern regions. 



Alaudino, Genus Emberiza. 

 Species Neiv. Nipalensis, nobis. 



Form, typical in the main bill elongate-conic, compressed, intire ; 

 culmen raised and subcarinated between the nares which are oval, lateral, 

 shaded above and behind by membrane, and hid by tiny hairs ; wifigs 

 rather short ; 3, 4 equal and longest ; 1 and 2 distinctly gradated ; tail 

 even ; tarsi and toes simple, ambulatory. 



Colour and size. Male — blue glossed black with cinj^^vmoneous wings 

 and tail, which are both dusky towards the tips ; taU^coverts mixed black 



* That is, with the gape strongly angulated and th&palate furoished with a large obtuse kuob. 



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