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surrounding web ; nasal plumes and forehead bufFy white, the 

 former tipped with black ; crown and occiput red, the bases of the 

 feathers leaden grey ; nape and hind neck black ; sides of the face 

 and neck, chiu, throat and nnderparts white, the lower breast, 

 abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts washed with rose-red ; a black 

 malar stripe sends off a branch behind the ear-coverts, but does not 

 join the nape, and descending, borders the fore neck and runs on 

 to the chest, the sides of which as well as of the breast, together 

 with the flanks and thighs, are narrowly striped with black, the latter 

 parts slightly rosy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the 

 former having a few stripes and spots of dusky black. Total length 

 10 inches, culmen 1-38, wing 5-G2, tail 3-35, tarsus l-Oo ; toes 

 (without claws) — outer anterior 0-6G, outer posterior 0-72, inner 

 anterior O'oO, inner posteiior 0'4. 



Yotiuij male. Differs from the adult male in having the feathers 

 of the crown and occiput tipped with dull reddish orange, and not 

 scarlet as in the old' male ; the sides of the body, flanks, and thighs 

 smoky in colour ; the striations on the side of the breast of a less 

 intense black, those on the flanks and thighs being very faint and 

 having a washed-out appearance ; the abdomen, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts with the faintest rosy tinge : the lateral tail-feathers 

 very much whiter and without the orange-brown tips, the two large 

 ■ outer feathers on either side white, with transverse spots of black 

 on the inner webs, the innermost of these having the base black ; 

 the six central feathers black, the outermost of these having only 

 the apical margin of the outer web and the tip of the inner web 

 white; the primaries tipped with a Y-shaped marking of white. 



Adidt female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the red on 

 the crown and occiput, these being black. Total length 9-S inches, 

 culmen 1-4, wing 5-G6, tail 3-45, tarsus 1-02. 



Hab. North-western and Central Europe, south to the northern 

 part of Italy ; Dalmatia and Turkey, and extending through 

 Southern Eussia and Southern Siberia into Manchouria, Corea, and 

 Mongolia. 



a, &. d ? imm. 



sk. 

 c. d ad. ; d. 2 



imm. sk. 

 e. _ ? ad. ; /. 6 



imm. sk. 

 (/. (5 ad. sk. 

 L 2 •'id. sk. 

 i. J jnv. sk. 

 k. 2 ad. sk. 

 I, m, n. (5' ad. ; 



o. 2 ad. ; p. (S 



juv. sk. 

 q, r. (S 2 ad. sk. 



Europe. 



Sweden {H. TJIieelwriff/it). 



Sweden, March, Dec. 



Wermland, Dec. 

 Zabadagh, Turkey, Dec. 

 Onega, N. Russia (Meves). 

 Kandagatai, Mongolia. 

 S. Manchouria, June, July. 



Purchased. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Gould CoU. 



Mr. Meves [C.]. 

 Hume CoU. 

 Salviu-Godman Coll. 

 Dr. Severtzoff [C.l. 

 Dr. James [P.]. 



Ussuri River, E. Siberia, Oct., Warsaw Museum. 

 Nov. 1873. 



