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VALCOMDJE. 



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 s. cJ ad. st. 

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Chiswick. 



Chiswick. 



Great Britain. 



Yorkshire. 



Littlecote, Berks. 



Scotland. 



Stockholm, Sweden, 



April 13, 18^3. 

 Denmark (Benzon). 

 Athens. 

 Sardinia. 



Tangiers (Olcesse). 



S.E. coast of Arabia. 



Ci-imea. 



Persia. 



India. 



Nepaul. 



Nepaul. 



Nepaul. 



Behar. 



Madras. 



Hakodadi, Japan. 



Hakodadi, Japan. 



Greenland. 



S. Greenland, Sept. 7, 

 1871. 



Fiskenaesset, Green- 

 land, Oct. 7, 1872. 



Fiskenaesset, Green- 

 land, July 12, 1872, 



N. America. 



N. America. 



Labrador. 



Labrador. 



Purchased. 

 Purchased. 



J. Gould, Esq. 

 J. Gould, Esq, 

 J, Gould, Esq. 

 Purchased. 



Baron A. von Hiigel, 



C. W. L. Merlin, Esq, [P.], 



A. B.Brooke, Esq. [P.]. One 



of the types of i''. hrookii. 

 Howard Saunders, Esq. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.J. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 

 K. Loftus, Esq. [P.], 

 Zoological Society. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 

 H. Whitelv, Esq. [C]. 

 H. Whitely, Esq. [0.]. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. _ 

 2, Es 



R. B. Sharpe, 



[P.]. 



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



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



Hudson's Bay Co. [P.l. 



Hudson's Bay Co. [P.]. 



Purchased. 



Sir E. Parry [P.]. 



with grey on the flanks and thighs ; the bars across this part of the body very 

 scanty and narrow ; bill yellowish horn-colour at the base, deeper on the 

 under mandible, shading into bluish towards the tip ; feet yellow, claws 

 dark horn-brown. Total length li-S inches, culmen 1-2, wing 12'7, tail 65, 

 tarsus 2. 



Female. Similar to the male, but larger, and having the black extending from 

 the head all over the interseapubiry region, down to the lower back, without any 

 indication of the alternate grey cross bars, which, where they occur on the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts, are nmch broader than in the male. Total length 

 18 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 14, tail 8, tarsus 2-1. 



Young female. Brownish black, the feathers of tlie upper surface edged with 

 rufous, the tips of the upper wing- and tail-covert« inclining to fulvous ; head 

 and nape much mottled by fulvous margins to the feathers, especially the latter ; 

 from underneath the eye over the ear-coverts a line of feathers, as also a distinct 

 makr stripe, black ; ear-coverts and sides of the neck creamy buff, the latter 

 streaked with blackish; throat creamy buff; rest of under surface deep ferru- 

 ginous buff, the centres of the feathers broadly blackish brown, the markings more 

 arrow-shaped on the flank-feathers, which are crossed by bars of ferruginous 

 buff; under wing-coverts and asillaries very dark brown, tlie former barred, the 

 latter spotted, with ferruginous butf. Total length 18 inches, culmen 1-35, 

 wing 14'r>. tail 8.">, tarsus 2'1. 



