152 MrsciCAPiB-i:. 



Europe, as a specimen killed in August has nearly completed his 

 adult dress, only a few remains of mottled plumage being apparent. 

 The young, when their feathers are fully moulted, do not appear to 

 differ in any way from the adults. The distinctness of the stripes 

 on the breast is a character that varies a good deal, and some speci- 

 mens are more rufescent in colour than others ; these may be the 

 newly moulted birds. 



Adult. General colour brown, the forehead and crown of the head 

 broadly streaked with dark-brown centres to the feathers ; wing- 

 coverts brown, with whity-brown edges to the wing-coverts and 

 secondaries ; the primaries and primary-coverts dark brown, narrowly 

 margined with paler brown ; tail dark brown, with lighter brown 

 edges to the feathers ; lores and feathers in front of the eye dull 

 whitish ; round the eye a ring of huffy whitish feathers ; ear-coverts 

 brown ; cheeks duU white, longitudinally streaked with light brown, 

 broader on the sides of the throat, and forming an ill-defined malar 

 streak ; rest of under surface of body dull white, purer on the centre 

 of the abdomen, the chest shaded with light brown and narrowly 

 streaked with darker brown, these streaks becoming nearly obsolete 

 on the lower breast and Hanks, the latter being more uniform like 

 the sides of the breast ; thighs light brown ; under tail-coverts white ; 

 under wing-coverts orange-brown, shaded with darker brown in the 

 centre of the feathers ; quills ashy brown below, dull huffy white 

 along the inner webs ; bill brown, paler at base of lower mandible ; 

 feet black ; iris dusky bro.wn. Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 3-4, tail 2-45, tarsus -O^B. 



Hab. The whole of Europe - in summer, ranging in winter into 

 tSouthern Africa and North*we"stern ;India. 



a. Pull. sk. England. ... J. Goidd, Esq. [C.]. 



b,c. c? $ ad. st. Canibridgesliii'e. ■ Mr. J. Baker [C.l. 



d. c? iuv. St. Cambiidgeshire. Mr. J. Baker [0.1. 



e,f. Pull. St. Cambridgeshire. Mr. J. Baker [Cj. 



ff. Pull. sk. Belgium. Brussels Museimi [C.]. 



h. Ad. sk. Tunis. L. FrasBr, Esq [C.]. 



i. c? ad. sk Ali Beg Keuy, Turkey (W. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Pearce). 



k. c? ad. sk. Bauias, Palestine. Canon Tristram [C.]. 



/. cJ ad. sk. Shiraz, Persia, Julv 1870. Capt. St. John [C.]. 



m. c? ad. sk. Ispahan, July 10, 1872. \V.T.Blanford,Esq.[C.]. 



n. 2 ad. sk. Saisau, Turkestan, May 30, Dr. Otto Finsch [C.]. 



1876. 



o. Ad. sk. Raikote, Kattiawar, Sept. Major Hayes Llovd [P.]. 



14, 1871. 



p, q. Ad. sk. Egvpt. Old Collection. 



r. Ad. sk. Zoidla, June 13, 1868 ( W. P. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Jesse), 



s, t. Ad. sk. Connor's Hill, Cape Coast R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{Gov. Ussher). 



u. Ad. sk. Fantee(6'ov. Ussher). R. B. Sharj^e, Esq. 



I'. Ad. sk. Abeokuta (H. Rohhi). F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



IV. Ad. sk. Mombas, Y.. Africa ( Wake- R. li. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



feld). 



