. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 280 FEINGILLIDJi. 33. RHODOPECHYS. T Type. Rhodopechys, Cab. Mus. Hem. Tb. i. p. 157, note (1850) R. Head of Rhodopechys sanguinea. Range. From Palestine to Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus, through Persia to Turkestan and Yarkand. 1. Rhodopechys sanguinea. Fririgilla sanguinea, Gould, P. 'A. S. 1837, p. 127; Dickson $ Ross, S. 1830, p. 121. phcenicoptera, Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 34 (1838); id.$ Schl. Monogr, , p. 27, pis. 30,31 (1850); Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 535 (1858). Carpodacus phoenicopterus
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 280 FEINGILLIDJi. 33. RHODOPECHYS. T Type. Rhodopechys, Cab. Mus. Hem. Tb. i. p. 157, note (1850) R. Head of Rhodopechys sanguinea. Range. From Palestine to Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus, through Persia to Turkestan and Yarkand. 1. Rhodopechys sanguinea. Fririgilla sanguinea, Gould, P. 'A. S. 1837, p. 127; Dickson $ Ross, S. 1830, p. 121. phcenicoptera, Bp. Camp. List B. Eur. fy N. Amer. p. 34 (1838); id.$ Schl. Monogr, , p. 27, pis. 30,31 (1850); Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 535 (1858). Carpodacus phoenicopterus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 384 (1844) ; Trislr. Ibis, 1868, p. 208. FringiUa rhodoptera, Liekt. MSS. in Mus. BeroJ. Carpodacus rhodopterus, Licht. Nomencl. Ac. Berol. p. 48 (1854). Rhodopechys sanguineus, Cab. Mus. Hi in Tb. i. p. 157, note (1850); Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 124; Horsf. tr. E. 1879, p. 108; Tristr. Faun. 8, Flor. Palest, p. 70 (1884). Adult male. General colour above chocolate-brown, mottled with subtcrminal blackish marks on the feathers of the mantle and upper back ; lower back lighter and more sandy brown ; rump rosy ; upper tail-coverts also rosy, the long ones black, edged with rosy; lesser wing-coverts sandy brown washed with rosy : median and greater coverts brown, edged with rosy ; the latter series internally black ; bastard-wing black, edged with brown, tinged with rosy ; primary- coverts and quills black, edged with bright rosy, the secondaries narrowly tipped with white, the inner ones externally chocolate- brown ; all the quills whitish at the extreme base, concealed : centre tail-feathers black, edged with rosy and white at the base, the white increasing towards the outer feathers, and the black more and more confined to the end of the feathers; the outer feathers entirely- white, with a black shaft; crown of head black, forming a cap ; the forehead scaly in appearance, the feathers minutely tipped with. Please note that these images are extra
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