8. COCCOTHRAUSTES. 



39 



black Hue across the base, the lores also blackish ; ear-coverts and 

 sides of face, as well as the cheeks, olive-yellow, with a few dusky 

 spots along the latter; throat pale yellow ; fore neck and breast, 

 as well as the sides of the body, light brown, the feathers tipped 

 with dusky; centre of breast and abdomen white; thighs dusky 

 brown ; under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries white ; 

 quills below dusky, with a white spot on the inner web of the 

 primaries, the secondaries white at the base. Total length &~ inches, 

 culmen 0-6', wing 3-8, tail _H, tarsus OS. 



A young male has the wing of the adult male, more yellow on 

 the head and throat than in the female, and a black throat, the 

 feathers of the latter tipped with yellow. 



Hab. Europe generally, extending eastwards to Asia Minor and the 

 Caucasus, perhaps to Northern Persia and Turkestan, though the 

 species from the last-named localities may prove to be C. Jiumii. 



a. 2 aa - st - 



b, c. c? 2 ad. ; d, 

 e, f, q. Juv. st. 



h. Pull, sk. 



i, k. Juv. st. 

 /, m. S 2 ad. s *- 

 n, o. J 2 ad. st. 



p, q. <S ad. ; r, 



8. 2 ad. st. 

 t, u. d 2 ad- sk. 

 v. Juv. sk. 

 w. 3 ad. sk. 



x. $ ad. sk. 



y. $ ad. sk. 



z. 2 ad. sk. 

 a. <$ ad. sk. 

 b', c\ <$ 2 ad. sk. 



d'. $ ad. sk. 



e'. c? juv. sk. 

 f, 9'- 6 2 ad. sk. 



/*'. 2 ad. sk. 



Norfolk. 



Norfolk. 

 Norfolk. 



Cambridgeshire. 



Turnham Green, Middlesex. 

 Hampstead, Middlesex 

 (O.S.). 



Cookhain, Berkshire. 



Cookham, Berkshire (J. G.). 

 Cookham, Berkshire (J, QX 

 Cookham, Berkshire, Dec. 10, 

 1867 (JR. 11. &). 



Cookham. Berkshire, Jan. 20, 



1873 ill. B. \). 

 Maidenhead, Feb. 10, 1880 



(.7. Go- 

 Maidenhead, May (./. G.). 

 Belgium. 

 Vosges Mountains, Jan 1877 



(Movgel). 

 [France.] 



Denmark (KjarbiiUing). 

 Taurus, Asia Minor, Dec. 



(C. G. Danford). 

 Erzeroum (Dickson $■ Ross). 



Lord Walsingham 

 Lord \\ alsingham 



Lord Y\ alsinjjham 



[P.]- 

 Mr. J. Baker [C.]. 

 Mr. J. Baker [CI 

 8alvin-Godman Coll. 



Mr. W. Brigga [P.]. 



Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Gould Coll. 



Gould Coll 

 Gould ( 'oil. 

 E.Hargitt, Esq. [P.]. 



M. Parzudaki 



[s. n. C. al])inus.~\ 

 Gould Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Subsp. a. Coccothraustes japonicus. 



Coccothraustes vulgaris, pt., Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 12 (1811). 

 Coccothraustes vulgaris japonicus, Temm. >Y Schl. Farm. Jap. pi. 51 



(1850) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 386 ; Blakist. fy Pryer, B. Japan, 



p. 175 (1882); Join/, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 294 (1883); 



Rlakist. Amended Lid B. Japan, p. 18 (1884) ; Seebohm, Hist. 



Brit. B. ii. p. 57 (1884). 



