. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . om the fifth, with sinuated or square tips; tarsusshort. The nestling in this genus is highly spotted and also suffusedwith yellow. 740. Coccothraustes humii. Humes Hawfinch. Coccothraustes vulgaris (Pall.), Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 456; id. S. F. vii, p. 462; id. Cat. no. 728 bis; Barnes, S. F. ix, p. humii, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 97 ; id. Cat. B. M. xii, p. 40, pi. 1. Coloration. Male. Feathers immediately next the bill, the lores,chin, and throat black; a narrow baud next these black parts dull COCCOTHRAUSTES. 197
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . om the fifth, with sinuated or square tips; tarsusshort. The nestling in this genus is highly spotted and also suffusedwith yellow. 740. Coccothraustes humii. Humes Hawfinch. Coccothraustes vulgaris (Pall.), Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 456; id. S. F. vii, p. 462; id. Cat. no. 728 bis; Barnes, S. F. ix, p. humii, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 97 ; id. Cat. B. M. xii, p. 40, pi. 1. Coloration. Male. Feathers immediately next the bill, the lores,chin, and throat black; a narrow baud next these black parts dull COCCOTHRAUSTES. 197 white; forehead, crown, nape, back, scapulars, and tertiaries tawnybrown ; a broad ashy collar on tbe hind neck and sides of neck;rump, upper tail-coverts, sides of tbe bead, and the whole lowerplumage a paler but clearer tawny brown ; middle of abdomen andthe under tail-coverts white; tail black, the feathers with broadwhite tips, the middle pair frequently ashy for some distance in frontof the white tip ; lesser wing-coverts brown, tipped ashy ; median. Fig. 53.—Head of C, hwmii. coverts and tbe greater part of tbe outer webs of the greater covertswhite ; remainder of wiug black, tbe primaries tipped with metallicblue, and each with a large white patch on the inner web; the laterprimaries and secondaries edged with metallic lilac or purple. Female. Black parts of the head as in the male; remainder ofhead and neck ashy brown ; other parts of plumage as in male, butthe tawny brown everywhere very pale and dull, the wings chieflybrown with some asby on the outer webs. Both sexes in winter have the black feathers of the chin andthroat narrowly tipped with white. These margins soon wearaway. The young of this species are unknown, but in tbe Europeanally the nestling is brown above with black tips to tbe feathers ;the bead is suffused with yellow ; the lower plumage is white, eachfeather with a black terminal bar; tbe wings and tail resemblethose of the adult. Bill in winter whit
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