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in the autumn are brighter iu spring than the resident English Linnets, 

 the males being more brilliant and the females more purely coloured 

 than English specimens, which are always darker. 



Eastern specimens show an approach to the brighter-coloured 

 A. firing illirostris, and resemble this race in the whitish edgings to 

 the primary-coverts. A more complete series would probably show 

 a perfect intergradation between these two forms, which at the best 

 can only be regarded as representative races. 



Hub. Europe generally, extending eastwards to Turkestan (but 

 replaced, as a ride, in the east by the closely- allied A. bella). N.E. 

 Africa, Madeira, and the Canaries. 



a,b. J J ad. st. Leicestershire. 



c, d, e. Pull. st. Norfolk, June. 



/, g. Pull. st. Saffron Walden, Essex. 



h. $ ad. sk. Cambridgeshire (J. Baker). 



i. <$ ad. sk. Cambridgeshire, Feb. 1857 



OF. D. G.). 



k. J ad. ; /. Juv. sk. Southwell, Notts, Oct. 1. 



I'. Var. sk. 



m. 2 ad. sk. 



». $ ad. sk. 



o. d ad. ; p. 5 



juv. sk. 

 q. § ad. sk. 



Near London. 



Ilampstead, Middlesex. 



Ilampstead, April 1807. 



Ilampstead, Oct. 18G9 



(E. B. H.). 

 Kingsbury, Middlesex. 



r-w. <5ad.; x-d'. J Ilanwell, Middlesex, Feb. 



ad. sk. 

 e' . (S ad. sk. 



f,g'. Juv. sk. 



/*'. $ ad. sk. 



i'. $ ad. st. 



k'-y '. 3 ad. ; 



z'-C 2 a d. sk. 

 rj, 6. <S ad. sk. 



Theodore AYalker, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Gtinther [P.], 

 J. Clark, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Lev. W. Beecker 



[P.]. 

 J. F. Stephens, Esq. 



[P.J. 

 J. E. Harting, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 J. E. Harting, Esq. 



^•\ , 

 Hume Coll. 



J. E. Harting, Esq. 



E. B. ' Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



1885 

 Cookham, Berks, April 11, 



1869 (It. B. S.). 

 Maidenhead, Berks, June Gould Coll. 



1859 (J. 6?.). 

 Ifliey, Oxford, Oct. 31, 1877. J. T. Mallam, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Brighton, Sussex, April 1883. B. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



_[?.-]■ 

 Near Brighton, April 1881 



Brighton, Nov. 1883. 



E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



PP.]- 

 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 



t. c? ad. ; k, X, fi, v. Pagham, Sussex, Sept. 



Jnv. sk. 

 o, w, p, <r. c? ad. ; Avington, Hants, Feb. 1880. E. B. Sharpe, Esq 



t, v. 2 ad. sk. _ [P.]. 



<p. $ ad. sk. Avington, May 12. 



X- 2 ad. st. 



i^. Var. alb. sk. 

 <o. cJ ad. sk. 



a', c? ad. sk. 



Dorsetshire, May. 



Devonshire. 



Axmouth, Devonshire, Oct. 



28, 1882. 

 Wales, July 24, 1S69. 



E. B. Sharpe. Esq 



[P.]. 

 E. B. Sharpe, Eso. 



[P.]. 

 Montagu Coll. 

 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

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