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i/f, &>', a', /3. Skulls. 



24. FRINGILLA. 



Seine-et-Oise, France 



(F. Petit). 

 Mongeron, Seine-et-Oise, 



Feb. 18. 

 Seville, Spain, Dec. 9. 



Yalencia,Spain,Dec.27. 



Coimbra,Portugal,Nov. 

 Malta, Feb. 



Delta, Egypt, Jan. 14. 



Mt. Carmel, Palestine. 



Nazareth, Palestine. 



Erzeroum. 



Anan, Mazendaran, N. 



Persia, Aug. 11. 

 Sbiraz, 5000 feet, Sept. 

 Oak-forest near Sbiraz, 



June. 

 Karij valley, Elburz 



mountains, Aug. 10, 



1872(W.T.Bla»furd). 

 England. 

 England. 

 England. 

 S. Germany. 



175 

 E. Hargitt, Esq. [P.]. 

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



Howard Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Howard Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Dr. L. Vieira [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 



J. H. Gurney, Jun., Esq. 



Canon Tristram [CI 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Sir 0. St. John [C.]. 

 Sir 0. St. John [C.j. 



Hume Coll. 



Purchased. 

 J. Ray, Esq. [P.]. 

 G. Ingall, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Giinther. 



3. Fringilla maderensis. 



Adult male. General colour above dark slate-colour on the back 

 and scapulars, the upper mantle and the lower back and rump olive- 

 yellow : upper tail-coverts slaty grey ; lesser wing-coverts glossy 

 blue-black, those near the edge of the wing slaty grey ; median 

 wing-coverts white, forming a broad wing-bar ; greater coverts 

 black, tipped with white ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; 

 quills black, edged externally with olive-yellow, ashy towards the 

 end of the primaries, the fourth, fifth, and sixth of which have a 

 tiny white spot at the base of the outer web, forming a small alar 

 speculum : centre tail-feathers ashy grey, the remainder black, 

 the outermost edged with white near the base of the outer web, and 

 having a large wedge-shaped mark of white at the end of the inner 

 web, this mark less developed on the penultimate feather and 

 reduced to a small spot at the end of the third ; crown of head and 

 hind neck dark slaty grey, the former glossy and having a distinct 

 frontal band of black ; lores and a streak over the eye, eyelid, sides 

 of face, and ear-coverts pale fawn-colour, the ear-coverts tipped with 

 grey like the adjoining sides of the neck ; throat and chest pale 

 fawn-colour, the breast and sides of the abdomen pale pinkish ; sides 

 of body and flanks slaty grey, darker on the sides of the upper 

 breast ; centre of abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts white ; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts white with dusky bases ; quills 



