THE COMMON ROSE-FINCH. 
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Section OSCINES CONIROSTRES. 
Family FRINGILLIDiE. 
, Subfamily LOXIIN^. 
Genus CAHPODACUS, Kaujp. 
' 327. CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS. 
THE COMMON KOSE-FINCH. 
Loxia erythrina, Tall. Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. p. 587, pi. 23. fig. 1 ; Jerd. B. Ind. 
ii. p. 398; Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 75, pi. ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 94 ; Oafes, S.F. 
iii. p. 342 ; Scully, S. F. iv. p. 170 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 350 ; Hume, 
S. F. viii. p. 108 ; Sculhj, S. F. viii. p. 335 ; BiddulpJi, Ibis, 1881, p. 83 ; id. 
S. F. ix. p. 348 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 234. 
Description. — Male in breeding-plumage. Cliin, throat_, head, nape and 
rump brilliant crimson, the sides of the head duller and the ear-coverts 
tinged with brown ; lores brown ; back and scapulars dull red, the terminal 
third of the feathers being red and the basal two thirds grey, but this colour 
not showing unless the feathers are disarranged ; each feather of these parts 
is in addition narrowly tipped paler ; upper tail-coverts brown, margined 
with dull red ; tail brown, suflPused with ruddy on the outer webs ; belly 
and flanks pale crimson, paling to rosy white at the vent and under tail- 
coverts ; axillaries smoky grey ; upper wing- coverts brown, tipped and 
margined with dull crimson ; wings brown, more or less suffused with dull 
crimson on the outer webs of the quills. 
Male in winter plumage. The chin_, throat, head, nape and rump are 
a dull crimson, brighter than the back ; the breast, abdomen, flanks and 
vent pale rose-colour with a tinge of yellow j the wing-coverts are tipped 
with rose-colour instead of crimson ; the wings and tail are much the same 
as in summer. 
The female at all seasons has the whole upper plumage olive-brown, each 
feather fringed with yellowish brown ; the upper wing-coverts are brown, 
broadly tipped with yellowish white or pale ochraceous ; and the wings and 
tail are brown, the outer webs being narrowly margined with pale ochra- 
ceous ; the ear-coverts are brown, with the shafts paler ; chin, throat, 
breast, upper abdomen and flanks light brown, streaked with dark brown ; 
centre of abdomen, vent and under tail-coverts whity brown. 
Bill grey horny, darker on culmen ; irides brown ; feet brown fleshy. 
[Scully.) 
