g52 TIMELTID.E. ' 



rufescent margins to the feathers ; the sides of the body and flanks 

 are very broadly streaked with black. 



Eab. The whole of Europe, ranging south to North Africa and 

 Arabia Petrcea. Specimens from Asia Minor {Danford) in Mr. 

 Seebohm's collection are the true A. mochtlaris and not the Persian 

 form. 



a,b. J 2 ad. ; c, Cambridgeshire. Mr. J. Baker [C.]. 



d, €. Pull. sk. 



/ Pull. sk. Berkshire, May 8 (/. G.). Gould Collection. 



a. 6 ; h, i. 2 ad. Surrey, Jan. 1857 (-F. 6^.). F. D. Godman and O. 



g]j_ " Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



Ji Ad sk Ilampsliire (P. Z. &/«<(>/■)• Gould Collection. 



l',m. 6 i ad. sk. S. Sweden, Sept. 23, 1873. Mr. Meves [C.]. 



n. Ad. sk. Germany. Gould Collection. 



o. Ad. sk. Belgium, Dec. 13. Brussels Museum. 



»". Ad. sk. Savoy (Bailly). Gould Collection. 



Q 2 ad sk. Villacidio, Sardinia, A. B. Brooke, Esq. 



March 10. [C.]. 



r. d ad. sk. Malta, Feb. Gould Collection. 



5. 2 ad. sk. Sidon. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



Subsp. a. Accentor orientalis. 



Accentor rubidus, Blanf. Eastern Persia, ii. p. 202 (1876, nee T. ^■ 

 S.). 



Mr. Blanford remarks on the differences exhibited by a specimen 

 from Persia, and considers it nearly allied to A. rubidus of Japan. 

 I have not had the pleasure of examining Mr. Blanford's specimen, 

 but it is probably the same as a bird in the Museum Collection from 

 Batoum, which is remarkable for its uniform brown head. Unfor- 

 tunately there is no date of capture attached to the specimen ; but it 

 is in otherwise abraded plumage, and may be in worn breeding-garb. 

 In this case, however, the head should be (jrey, whereas it is hroiun. 

 As this appears to indicate the existence of an Eastern race of the 

 Common Hedge-Sparrow, I have thought it better to classify it as a 

 distinct race, and perhaps the receipt of further specimens may de- 

 monstrate its claim to full specific rank. 



Hcd). Apparently represents the Common Hedge-Sparrow from 

 the eastern shores of the Black Sea to Persia. 



a. Ad. sk. Batoum, Black Sea {Huet de Gould Collection. 



PmUloTi). 



2. Accentor rubidus. 



Accentor modularis rubidus, Temm. S,- Schl. Fmm. Jap. p. 69 (1850). 

 Accentor rubidus, iid. t. c.pl. 32 (1850) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 305 (1850) ; 



Gra7j, Hand-l. B. i. p. 231, no. 3326 (1869) ; Blakist. ^ Piyer,. 



Ibis, 1878, p. 236 ; iid. B. Japan, p. 152 (1882). 



Mr. Seebohm has remarked on the discrepancies between the 

 Bpecimens of the Japanese Hedge-Sparrow as figured by Gould ami 



