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to ne 0 f tiif/!' 1 ’!' some ^ i ' n a hke ^he Rosy Bullfinch, but larger, and it has not the deep 
them about f/' ^ ^ ie com paratively loud chirp of a Fringilla. There was a flock of 
Colonel p 6 *° rt : P erlla P s Ci'-'.Y are permanent inhabitants here.” 
a,1 d th ore jd( hilph writes : “We met with this only at Panjah in Wakhan, in April — 
bare ground ° n ^ Saw one ^ ar fl e fl° c k, which used to come every morning and settle on some 
’"'hich \Vfx d ? ( '" U our camp, until we had shot most of them. The elevation of the place at 
&hot them was 9000 feet.” 
67 - Ph 
Fri 
■ODOSPIza. obsoleta. 
Genus RHODOSPIZA. 
No 
, Licht - , in Evcrsm - Reis - Anhang, p. 132 (1823). 
§cu|i a 0 80 c ^ a (Lieht.) ; Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 64 (1873); Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 247; 
Orn AT ^ r " * V ‘ p ‘ (1876) ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 352, pi. xvii. (1876) ; Prjev. in Rowley's 
J A « 1S n‘ ^ P ‘ 303 (187? ) > C ■ Swinh - Ibis > 1882, p. 114; Menzb. Ibis, 1885, 'p. 353; Scully, 
Shodospiz f eilg ‘ lvL p - 84 ( 1887 >- 
p 8o^igg^ e ^ a ’ Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 282 (1888); id. Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) Zool. v. 
890 arl o • „ 
lT] j f l’, ' ' Sanju, October 28, 1873. — Iris coffee-brown ; bill black, paler about the 
ex e ’ Ee et horny brown. Length 6 3 inches, wing 3'55, tail 2 - 7, tarsus 0 - 68 ; 
No. 9 ou an r ^ ^ ’ kill from forehead 0'4, from gape 055 ; length of foot l - 25. 
h T 0s . 932 San «ffb October 29, 1873. 
N os . g ’ 337 > ad - Sanju, October 30, 1873. 
No. g 34 5 J44 ’ a( h Sanju, October 31, 1873. 
N° s . 975 - 9 % 0 i ' to grak, November 3, 1873. 
N° s , 99o J 7 ’ ad - Karghalik, November 6 , 1873. 
N°. p 9 gg ad - Yarkand, November 10 , 1873. 
N°. l3S() 5 ad - Yarkand, November 21 , 1873. 
No. 173 J d< V ^yzabad, E. of Kashghar, March 3, 1874. 
Nos. 7 99 ’ hY; Narkand, May 20 , 1874. 
Nos. i 89 3 Y 4 ’ ad - Yarkand, May 26, 1874. 
Nos. i 80 ’ ad - Karghalik, May 29, 1874. 
Nos. i 829 5 b0 ad - Karghalik, May 29, 1874. 
Coi OUel ’ 825 ’ 1827 ’ 1828, ad ‘ Ear § lialik ’ May 30, 1874. 
^.° Ve mber, arid^^alPk senc * s the following note : — “ We first met with this at Sariju in 
^ as hgb ar , ^ 011 ihe march thence to Yarkand. During the winter it was not obtained in 
16 i'°ot of ound il ver Y common throughout the plains of Yarkand, and right up to 
Pm- , . 1 4s during May and June. 
Ca ge s . 
Tl ‘l! '’he! has' 
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a peculiar piping note and the people are very fond of keeping it in 
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vv 0 -q * jr~jr — o J ^ seeping il m 
° Uud > never i u Sa ' V lfc ki gh up in the hills. It is a true Eincli, rarely seen on the 
Scully f ° C ^ S ’ always in pairs.” 
■g . 6 Plains of Kaswf ^ Species breeding in May and June. He writes “Numerous in 
har ju S i 8 'hana, where it is a permanent resident. This species was common at 
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° ar wiif “ pcj.iuciuci.iu icMucui/. unis species was common at 
Vio n/ f ar(// l , VA ’ "here it frequents the hedges, often in company with the Sparrow 
kgT /* 8 poplars T ^ ear Yarkand in summer it was found about trees, in orchards, and in 
le s pecie s is § ^ ^ ^ aS a ver J swee t song, and feeds entirely on seeds. The Turki name 
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