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black ; iris brown." Total length 5*5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 

 3'15, tail 2*15, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 warm brown, the least wing-covcrts like the back ; median and 

 greater series blackish brown, externally edged with the same 

 brown as the back, the median coverts tipped with whity brown, 

 tho greater series with creamy white ; primary-coverts entirely 

 blackish brown ; quills blackish brown, the innermost secondaries 

 broadly edged with white, the secondaries with a creamy white spot 

 at base, concealed by the tips of the greater coverts, the inner pri- 

 maries with a small white spot near the base of the outer web ; 

 upper tail- coverts black ; tail blackish brown, the three outer 

 feathers with a broad white mark on the outer web, gradually less 

 on the penultimate and third feathers ; forehead ochraceous buff ; 

 in front of the eye a dull white spot ; ring of feathers round the 

 eye light ochraceous buff; sides of face and ear-coverts ochreous 

 brown, mottled with pale fulvous-brown spots on the feathers ; 

 checks and throat pale ochraceous brown, shading gradually oft' into 

 the pure white of the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; thighs 

 white ; throat whitish in the centre ; sides of body light ochraceous 

 brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ochraceous buff, the former 

 with dusky bases ; quills dark brown below, whitish along the inner 

 web. Total length 5-1 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-95, tail 2*1, 

 tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. Europe generally, extending eastwards to Persia, and in 

 winter ranging into Africa. 



Yorkshire. Mr. J. Baker. 



Halifax, Yorkshire {Mr. 



Parke). 

 Stockholm, Aug. 15, 184-5. Purchased. 

 Stockholm, May 20, 1855. Purchased. 

 Heligohmd, May 1877 (i. Henry Seebohm,Esq. [P.]. 



Gdtkc). 

 Belgium, May 18, 1848. Brassels Museum [P.]. 

 Belgium, Sept. 15, 1871. Brussels Museum [P.J. 

 Piedmont. 

 Valencia, Spain, April 21, Henry Seebohm, Esq. [P.]. 



1872 (H. Saunchrs). 

 Europe. 

 Europe. 



Algiers. Purchased. 



River Gambia. 



Kiver Gambia. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Persia. 



Persia. Purchased. 



Karij Valley, ElburzMoun- W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



tains, N. Persia, 7000 ft., 



Aug. 10, 1672. 



