. Birds. Birds. PTBEHOSPIZA. 211 and wiiig-coverts dull crimson, each feather with a brown centre ; rump and upper tail-coverts bright crimson; quills and tail brown, margined with reddish. Female. Forehead and an indistinct supercilium rather bright yellow; anterior part of crown yellow, the feathers with dusky centres, becoming ashy on the posterior portion of the crown, and the nape with narrow yellowish margins j back, scapulars, and wing- coverts bright olive-yellow, the feathers with dusky centres; rump and upper tail-coverfcs nearly pure olive-yellow; quills and tail brown, edged with o
. Birds. Birds. PTBEHOSPIZA. 211 and wiiig-coverts dull crimson, each feather with a brown centre ; rump and upper tail-coverts bright crimson; quills and tail brown, margined with reddish. Female. Forehead and an indistinct supercilium rather bright yellow; anterior part of crown yellow, the feathers with dusky centres, becoming ashy on the posterior portion of the crown, and the nape with narrow yellowish margins j back, scapulars, and wing- coverts bright olive-yellow, the feathers with dusky centres; rump and upper tail-coverfcs nearly pure olive-yellow; quills and tail brown, edged with olive-yellow; sides of the head ashy; lores, cheeks, and chin pale grey mottled with ashy; throat and sides of neck ashy; breast yellow, with ashy bases to the feathers; remainder of lower parts ashy, paler on the abdomen. The young birds resemble the adult female. BiU fleshy brown; legs pale brown ; iris hazel-brown (Jerdon). Length about 3 ; tail 3-2; wing 3-8; tarsus-8; bill from gape-6. Distribution. Nepal; Sikhim; Manipur. Habits, ^c. Jerdon states that he found this species near Dar- jeeling, frequenting the more open parts of the woods in small parties. &enus PTEEHOSPIZA, Hodgs., 1844. The genus Pyrrhospiza approaches the Eose-Knches still more than the preceding genus does, but difEers in the male having the abdomen brown, streaked with black. The female is absolutely like the females of the Eose-Knches and has no green whatever in the plumage. In structure Pyrrhospiza resembles Propyrrhula, but in the former the bill is rather more slender and longer. 753. Pyrrhospiza piuiicea. The Bed-breasted Eose-Finch. Pyrrhospiza punicea, Hodgs. Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii, p. 953 (1844); Blyth, Cat. p. 121; Horsf. ^ M. Cat. ii, p. 461; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 406; Stoliexka, J. A. 8. B. xxxvii, pt. ii, p. 60; Blanf. J. A. S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 66; Hume, Cat. no. 747; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 431; Oates in Hmne's N. 8f JE. 2nd ed. ii, p. 152. ? Pyrrhospiza humii, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xi
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