CATALOGUE. 
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Erythrospiza phoenicoptera, JBonap. lAst^ p. 34 (1838) ; 
Bonap. et ScUeg., Monog. Lox. t. 30, 31. Bonap., 
Consp. Gen. Av. p. 535. 
Fringilla rhodoptera, Lichtenstein, Mus. Lugd. 
a. ^. Pushut. From Griffith's Collection. 
" Observed in small flocks. Granivorous. Tongue divided into 
four or five setae at its apex." — (Griffith's MS. Notes.) 
" Tolerably common at Erzeroum. First appears on the neighbour- 
ing hills, and afterwards in the plains, at no great distance from them. 
Food, the unripe seeds of the Cichoracece. Arrives in the middle of 
May, and departs in the middle of September." — (Messrs. Dickson 
and Eoss.) 
Genus Pyrrhospiza, Hodgson, J. A. S. Beng. XIII. jo. 953 
(1844). 
Propterhtila, part. Ilodgs. 
694. PYRRHOSPIZA PUN ICE A, Hodgson. 
Pyrrhospiza punicea, Hodgs., J. A. S. Beng. XIII. 
p. 953 (1844). BlgtJi, J. A. S. Beng. XXIII. p. 213 ; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 121. 
Carpodacus puniceus, Bonap. et ScJiIeg., Monog. Lox. 
p. 25, t. 27, 28. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 530. 
Propyrrhula rubeculoides, Hodgs., Gray's Zool. Misc, 
(1844), p. 85 ; P. Z. S. (1845), p. 36 ; Cat. B. 
of Nep. 'p. 110, et App. p. 155. 
Strobilophaga rubeculoides, G. B. Gray, Gen. of Birds, 
III. App. p. 18. 
Strobilophaga caucasica, apud Hodgson, Cat. B. of Nep. 
p. 110. 
a. $ . Nepal, Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
Genus Mycerobas, Cahanis (1847). 
695. MYCEROBAS MELANOXANTHUS, Hodgson Sp. 
Coccothraustes melanoxanthus, Hodgs., As. Res. XIX. 
p. 150 (1836). Gray's Zool. Misc. (1844), p. 84; 
Cat. B. of Nep. p. 105. BlytJi, J. A. S. Beng. 
XIII. p. 950 ; Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 125. 
G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, II. p. 358, t. 88. 
Mycerobas melanoxanthus, Cahanis. Bonap., C. G. Av. 
p. 305. Gould, Birds of Asia, t. 
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