134 BTBONID^, 



brown, barred across with j-oUowish white ; tail brown, tipped with 

 whitish and crossed with four other bands of whitish brown, the 

 liauds traversing the rcctrices near the base, but incomplete towards 

 the apex ; head bro^xTi, thickly marked with triangular spots of 

 white, Avith which all the feathers are streaked ; on the nape a patch 

 of white, the feathers being mostly of this colour, with broad ter- 

 minal margins of brown ; feathers of the face, as well as a distinct 

 eyebrow, white, the lores blackish at tip, the ear-coverts also marked 

 with brown; cheeks white, exiending backwards in a triangular 

 patch behind the ear-coverts ; chin and fore neck white, separated 

 from each other by a band of brown feathers across the throat ; rest 

 of under surface of body white, streaked with brown, some of the 

 Hank-feathers having also indications of cross markings of the same 

 colour, tho feathers of the upper breast barred and mottled with 

 whitish ; leg-feathers and under tail-coverts whitish, the latter with 

 a few central markings of brown ; under wing-coverts whitish, in- 

 clining to yellow on the inner ones and axillaries, most of the under 

 coverts being marked with brown near the base ; inner lining of wing 

 brown, the inner webs broadly barred and the outer webs spotted 

 with yellowish ; bill yellow, slightly tinged with greenish ; feet 

 greyish yellow; iris yellow. Total length 11-5 inches, wing 6-7, 

 tail 3-5, tarsus 1"3. 



The sizes of the sexes are given as below in Sharpe and Dresser's 

 ' Birds of Europe ' : — 



cJ ad. Total length 82 inches, wing 6, tail 2-9, tarsus 1-1. 

 5 ad. Total length 9 „ wing 6-1, tail 3, tarsus 1-1. 

 I suspect that both these birds were really males, and that the 

 specimen described by me above represents the female sex. 



Yo^ma. Yery similar to the adult, but more dingy, especially on 

 the lower surface, where the central markings to the feathers are 

 ashy brown and very broad. All the characteristic markings of the 

 adult are developed in the young bird ; but the white markings on 

 the upper parts are broader and more conspicuous than in the old 

 bird, especially on the scapulars and upper wing-coverts. 



Hah. The continent of Europe, occiirring as far north as Denmark, 

 but only an occasional visitant in England or Scandinavia. In N.E, 

 Africa only near Tangier (Trbi/), thence along the northern shores 

 of the Mediterranean to Asia Minor and Southern Russia generally. 

 Its eastern range is as yet undefined, 



a. Juv. St. Europe. 



h. Ad. St. Essex. Mr. J. Baker [C.]. 



r. Pull, si France. 



fl. Ad. sk. Near Paris. ' M. A. Bouvier [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Ain, France. M. A. Bouvier [P.]. 



f. Ad. St. Ain, France. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.J. 

 V/. Vix ad. sk. Seville, Spain (I£. /Saunders). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P. I. 

 '/i. Ad. sk. Geneva, Oct. 1871. L. Eraser, Esq. [C.]. 



i. Ad. sk. Sardinia, winter of 1869. A. B. Brooke, Esq. [C.]. 



;t. Ad. sk. Greece. .T. Gould, Esq. | P. 1. 



I. Ad.sk. South Vi-d\(Sfrad>r). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



w,H. Ad.sk. Tangier. Signor Olcese [C.J. 



