TAB. XX XIIL., Fig. 1.
CARDUELIS CANICEPS.

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Card. brunnescenti-canus ; alts caudaque nigris; cerculo angusto frontem rictum gulamque
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circumcingente coccineo; fascia alarum aurea; thorace, maculis paucis alarum, uropygio,
abdomine imo, crisso, rectricum externarum pogonis mternis, mediarumque apicibus albis.

Statura Card. communis.

Tue fact that many of the most common birds of the British Isles are represented by species similar, though
perfectly distinct, in some of the remotest regions of the globe, is nowhere more strongly illustrated than in
the present instance, the Carduelis caniceps, which, although differmg in several respects, is not, as may at
first sight be perceived, a perfect Goldfinch. The general form and the disposition of the colours, the red
front, and more particularly the gold markings on the wing, at once remind the English naturalist of his
native species. No account of its habits has reached us, but it appears to be a bird of rare occurrence.

The forehead, the superciliary line, base of the under mandible, and throat, are scarlet ; the top of the head,
occiput and back, olive grey ; the wings are black with a golden band; the rump white ; the tail black, the
tips of the two middle and the inner webs of the two external feathers being white; the under surface is
pale brownish grey; beak and tarsi flesh colour.

 

Tas. XXXIIL, Fe. 2.
CARDUELIS SPINOIDES.

Mas. Card. fronte, occipite, collo corporeque infra, ptilis, pteromatum apicrbus, fascia remigum,
rectricumque lateralium basrbus flavis ; capite supra dorsoque olivaceis ; alis caudaque
Sfuscescenti-nigris.

Fem.’ Coloribus minis saturatis ; abdomine dorsoque oliwaceo-fusco striatis.

Statura pauld major quam Card. Spine.

Tue near relation which this species bears to our Aberdevine, or Siskin, is no less obvious and singular than
that of the last to the Goldfinch; and it is an interesting point, which the naturalist will not fail to remark,
that two birds which are so closely connected in form and locality in our own climate, should each have its
distinct though close representative assimilated equally in exterior appearance as well as local distribution in
a country so far apart from us as the Himalayan mountains. ,

To the habits of this species much the same observations will apply as those of the one preceding ;—
the Siskin being the most probable type to be looked to in its mode of life and means of subsistence.

The forehead, occiput, sides of the neck, shoulders, tips of the greater covcuaes anil outer webs at the basal
extremity of the quills, are yellow ; the back olive brown, the quills ane tail having a blackish tinge at their
tips, the feathers of the latter being yellow at their base ; the beak is flesh colour with a dark culmen; the

tarsi are of a pale flesh colour.
Both these species are figured of their natural size.