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tail-coverts rufescent, with concealed wliite marks about the middle 

 of the feathers, which are longitudinally streaked towards the tip 

 with blackish brown ; wings blackish brown with broad sand)'- 

 coloured margins ; tlie white wing-patch smaller tlmn in the male, 

 but formed in the same manner ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged 

 with sandy buff, more distinct on the outermost feather, all of them 

 having sandy-buff tips ; lores and an indistinct eyebrow fulvous ; 

 ear-coverts darker brown, streaked with fulvous ; throat ashy buff, 

 with concealed blackish bases to the feathers, and an indistinct spot 

 of black on the lower throat, on each side of the latter a triangular 

 patch of white running up behind the ear-coverts ; fore neck, breast, 

 and sides of body pale orange-rufous ; abdomen, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts sandy buff ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white 

 with blackish bases ; quills dusky brown below, edged with white 

 along the iuner web. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2-5, 

 tail 1-9, tarsus 0-85. 



The winter plumage of the female does not differ much from the 

 summer dress, excepting that the general tone of coloration is 

 browner, the feathers of the upper surface being more broadly edged 

 with brown ; the throat is entirely ashy buff, the black jugular 

 spot, as well as the white on the sides of the neck, being completely 

 obscured. 



Young. Mottled ;- general colour above blackish brown, with grey 

 bases to the feathers, each of which has a triangular spot of buff 

 near the tip ; head streaked with the latter colour ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts rufescent, mottled with brown edgings to the feathers ; 

 wings dark ])rown, with broad rufescent margins to the wing-coverts 

 and quills ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged and tipped with sandy 

 rufous, broader on the outermost feather ; lores dull whitish with 

 fulvous tips ; round the eye a ring of buff feathers ; ear-coverts 

 dark brown streaked with fulvous; cheeks and throat ashy fulvous, 

 the latter slighfly mottled with browu tips ; rest of under surface 

 pale rufous-buff; fore neck and breast mottled with brown tips to 

 the feathers. 



Hab. Europe, extending into Palestine and eastwards into Russia, 

 its range coalescing with that of F. maara probably somewhere in 

 the watershed of the Volga river, perhaps between that river and 

 the Don. 



Mr. J. Baker [C.]. 



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



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



Brussels Museum [P.]. 

 Howard Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Sir C. Fellows [P.]. 

 Cauou Tristram [C.]. 

 Ca:ion Tristram [C.]. 



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