. Birds. Birds. ACANTHIS. 227 white ; chin and throat blackish, tipped with red; lower plumage brown suffused with rosy red ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white with ashy bases. Female. The forehead, round the eye, and supercilium buff j crown and nape dusky brown ; upper plumage ochraceous brown; lesser and median wing-coverts ochraceous brown, tipped paler; greater. Fig. 62.—Head of C. burtoni. wing-coverts, primary-coverts, winglet, and quills black, tipped with white ; tail as in male ; lores and ear-coverts brown with pale shafts; entire lower plumage ochraceous brown; under wing- co
. Birds. Birds. ACANTHIS. 227 white ; chin and throat blackish, tipped with red; lower plumage brown suffused with rosy red ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white with ashy bases. Female. The forehead, round the eye, and supercilium buff j crown and nape dusky brown ; upper plumage ochraceous brown; lesser and median wing-coverts ochraceous brown, tipped paler; greater. Fig. 62.—Head of C. burtoni. wing-coverts, primary-coverts, winglet, and quills black, tipped with white ; tail as in male ; lores and ear-coverts brown with pale shafts; entire lower plumage ochraceous brown; under wing- coverts and axillaries white vnth ashy bases. In the dry state the bill is yellow and the legs fleshy brown. Length 6*5 ; tail 2'6 ; wing 4; tarsus "8; bill from gape '7. Distrihution. The Himalayas from Murree to Garhwal and Kumaun. According to Stoliezka, this species is found occasionally in winter on the lesser ranges, about Kotgarh and Simla, between 4000 and 7000 feet; in summer it lives in the highest cedar-forests on the central range of the Himalayas. Habits, Sfc. This Finch is said to make a large nest of moss in a pine-tree in dark forest situations. The eggs do not appear to be known. Genus ACANTHIS, Bechst., 1802. The genus Acanihis contains the Linnets, of which two species are found on the Himalayas. One of them is little more than a race of the common English Linnet, but it varies in certain constant particulars which I think entitle it to separation from the European form. The Linnets are brown, hut the males have portions of the plumage suffused with red. The bill is short, straight and pointed. The sexes do not differ very much from each other except with regard to the rosy parts of the plumage. Key to the Species. a. Throat streaked , p. 228. b. Throat unstreaked A. brevirostris, p. 229. «?2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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