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Ilah. Europe o-encrally, breeding as high as 64° N. lat., but be- 

 coming rarer in Russia and Eastern Europe ; found as far south as 

 Palestine and in North-eastern Africa. 



Mr. Bullock [C.]. 



Mr. Bullock [CI. 



J. Gould, Esq. [CI. 



Mr. J. Baker [0.1. 



Mr. J. Baker [C.J. 



Mr. J. Baker [C.]. 



Col. Montagu [P. 



Col. Montagu [P.] 



Col. Montagu | P. 



Sir W. Elford, Bart. [P.]. 



Purchased. 



a. Pull. St. 



b. Pull. St. 



c. c'. Pidl. sk. 



d. c? ad. St. 



e. Juv. St. 

 /, g. Pull. St. 

 h. 'Ad. St. 

 i. Ad. st. 

 k. Ad. St. 

 /. Ad. St. 

 m. Pull.sk. 



n. Pull.sk. 



o. S juv. sk. 

 p. 5 ad. sk. 

 q. j ad. sk. 

 r. Imm. sk. 

 •s, <• c? 2 ad. sk. 

 u, V. Ad. St. 

 IV. Ad. sk. 

 X, y. Ad. sk. 

 s. Ad. sk. 

 a'. Skeleton. 

 v. Sternum, 

 c'. Sternum. 



Great Britain. 



Great Britaiu. 



Great Britain. 



Cambridgeslnre. 



Cambridgeshire. 



Cambridgeshire. 



Wiltshire. 



Carmarthenshire. 



Carmarthenshire. 



Devonshire. 



SkSne, S. Sweden, 



May 11th, 18(39. 

 Wermland, Sweden, 



June 0th, 186;l 

 Stockholm, June 12th, 1873. 

 Stockholm, June 11th, 1873. 

 Stockholm, Nov. 2ud, 1873. 

 Germany. 

 Switzerland. 

 Fontaiuebleau, France. 

 France. 

 Algeria. 

 Russia. 



North Europe. 

 England. 

 England. 



Purchased. 



Purchased. 

 Purchased. 

 Purchased. 



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

 nowardSaunders,Esq.[P.J. 

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

 M. A. Bouvier [P.]. 

 •M. Olcese [0.]. 

 M. A. Bouvier. 

 Purchased. 

 J. Ray, Esq. [P.]. 

 T. IngaU, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Syrnium nivicolum. 



Mesomorpha nivicola, Ilodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82. 



Syrnium nivicolum, Blyth, J. A. H. B. xiv. pp. 185, 550 ; id. Cat. B. 



Mns. A. S. B. p. 41 ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 3 ; Bp. Gonsp. 



i. p. 51 ; Kaup, Confr. Orn. 1852, p. 121 ; Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. 



Mns. E. I. Co. i. p. 84 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 187 ; Jerd. B. Ind. 



i. p. 124 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 48 ; Hitme, Bouyk Notes, ii. p. 359 ; 



Stvinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 344. 

 Urrua nivicola, Hodys. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 185. 



Adult (rufous phase). General colour above brown, with numerous 

 zigzag bars and mottlings of orange-rufous, coarser on the upper 

 back and scapulars, the outer webs of the latter being for the most 

 part white or fulvous white, causing a conspicuous shoulder-patch ; 

 wing-coverts dark brown, minutely spotted with orange-rufous, the 

 median coverts more coarsely mottled towards the tips, the greater 

 coverts with a large oval white spot near the tips of the feathers ; 

 primary-coverts blackish brown, with faint indications of lighter 

 brown bars ; quills dull brown, narrowly margined with whitish at 

 the tips and crossed with bars of paler brown, almost obsolete on the 

 inner webs, but inclining to fulvous brown on the outer, giving a 

 spotted appearance to the wing, the primaries marked ou the outer 

 web with five large notches of rufous ochre ; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 narrowly tipped with ashy white and crossed with five bands of 



