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miculated with brown wavy markings ; upper tail-coverts greyish, 

 like the back, with a few indications of whitish cross markings, the 

 outer ones inclining to sandy buff; tail-feathers brown, coarsely 

 mottled with brownish vermiculations, and irregularly barred with 

 fulvous, tliese bars being rather more distinct and whiter on the outer 

 feathers ; lores whitish, the shafts elongated and blackish at tip ; 

 over the fore part of the eye a few white feathers terminally mar- 

 gined with blackish ; sides of face gi'ey, with a few indistinct dusky 

 cross lines, the ear-coverts slightly washed with sandy colour, more 

 particularl}' below the eye ; behind the ear-coverts a crescentic band 

 of black feathers extending below on to the sides of the neck, all 

 these plumes whitish or fulvous at base ; chin whitish ; throat and 

 sides of neck clear gre}', finely vcrmiculated with brown cross lines, 

 and slightly washed with orange-buff, the shafts of the featliera 

 distinctly black ; all the rest of the under surface greyish, strongly 

 washed with, orange-buii' on parting the feathers, all of which have 

 black shaft-lines, broader on the Hanks ; the breast and sides of 

 body lighter than the chest by reason of whitish bars on most of 

 them ; the lower flanks and imder tail-coverts white, crossed with 

 one or two sandy buff bars, the narrow linear vermiculations nearly 

 absent ; leg-feathers orange-buff, with a few minute bars of brown ; 

 under wing-coverts buffy white, slightly streaked and barred with 

 brown, the lower series ashy brown, broadly barred with whitish on 

 the inner web, and resembling the inner lining of the quills ; bill 

 black ; toes brown ; claws white at base, nearly black at tip ; iris 

 yellow. Total length 7'5 inches, wing 5-9, tail 2-9, tarsus 0'95, 



Adult femnle (Safed, Tristram). Total length 8 inches, wing 6-15, 

 tail 2-9, tarsus l-l. 



Hub. Central and Southern Europe, ranging occasionally into the 

 British Isles, and migrating into X.E. Africa and Sencgambia. 



John Gould, Esq. 



E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.J. 



Lord Lilford [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.l. 



M. Olcese [0.1. 



M. Olcese [C.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

 Canon Tristram [C]. 

 M. A. Marche [tJ.]. 

 H. Whitely, Esq. [P.]. 



Ohs. Amongst specimens from various parts of Europe I perceive 

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