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cially near the base. Total length 6-'d inches, culmen 0-5, wiug 3- 15, 

 tail 2-7, tarsus 0-l». 



Obs. Some of the old males are beautiful birds in spring, being 

 quite of a canary-yeEow ; but this bright colour gets greatly dete- 

 riorated and abraded during the breeding-season, the upper surface 

 being worn to an ashy greenish and the yellow of the under sur- 

 face to a dull yellow. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but duller in colour and not 

 having the yellow forehead, which is greenish like the head. Total 

 length 6-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 34, tail 2-8, tarsus 0'9. 



Adult in winter jplumwje. Rather greener than in the summer 

 dress ; the head like the back ; ear-coverts greenish like the back ; 

 a broad yellow eyebrow ; under surface of body yellow, with a 

 slight saffron tinge on the chest ; a few brown spots on the sides of 

 the throat and on the fore neck, mostly concealed. Total length 

 6-8 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-4, tail 3-1, tarsus 0-95. 



Eastern specimens (Plate VI. tig. 2) are decidedly more brilliant 

 than the Western (Plate YI. fig. 1), and have the entire head yellow 

 in the old bird, the ear-coverts being uniformly yellow. Should these 

 characters be confirmed by a large series, the Eastern race will have 

 to be distinguished. The winter home wUl also be found to be 

 more easterly also, as Mr. Blanford's specimen from Adigrat, as well 

 as those from the Zambesi collected by Sir Jolm Kirk, belong to 

 the brighter form, which passes the summer in the Altai Mountains 

 and Turkestan. 



Hah. Occurs in Western Europe on migration, breeding in the 

 British Islands, wintering in Western and Southern Africa. A 

 second colony occurs in South-eastern Hussia and extends to Tur- 

 kestan. 



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e. Ad. autumn, sk. Hampstead, Middlesex. 



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Near London. 

 Cookham, Berks, Aug. 20. 

 Cookbam, Berks, May 14. 

 Plumstead, Kent, May. 

 Plumstead, Aug. & Sept. 

 Iioiunej' Marsh, May. 

 llomney Marsh, July 8. 

 -Romney Marsh, Aug. 29. 



Lord WalsLngham [P.], 

 Theodore Walker, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 F. D. Godman and 0. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Gould Collection. 

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

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

 R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P. j. 

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

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

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. LP.J- 

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



Romney Marsh, Sept. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.], 



Pagham, Sussex, Sept. 4. 

 Pagham, Sussex, Sept. 

 Brighton, Sussex, Sept. 



Brighton, Sussex, April. 

 Brighton, April {Sways- 

 land). 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P. 

 Messrs. Swaysland [C. 



Messrs. Swavsland [C], 

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



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