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strongly mottled with brown bases to tbe feathers ; axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts white: quills ashy brown below, lighter ashy along 

 the inner web; bill horn-brown, the basal portion of the mandible 

 light brown j legs light brown ; iris brown. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen - 55, wing 3 - 7, tail 2*1, tarsus - 7. 



The sexes do not differ in colour, though the yellow spot on the 

 throat is not quite so distinct in the female, which measures : — 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3*8, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-7. 



The Eastern specimens are decidedly paler than the Western, the 

 darkest of all being those from Teneriffe and Madeira. 



The young birds are more uniformly brown than the adults, and 

 are much more like a hen Domestic Sparrow ; they lack the yellow 

 spot on the throat, and are ashy whitish below, faintly streaked 

 with pale brown. 



Hab. Central and Southern Europe, of rare occurrence in Germany 

 and Holland and the north of France ; Madeira and the Canary 

 Islands. Eastward to Central Asia, Eastern Siberia, and North 

 China. The birds from the far east have been separated by Tacza- 

 nowski as P. brevirostris ; but whether this distinction holds good, I 

 have not been able to determine. 



a,b. S ; c. 2 Orotava, Teneriffe, April 8 (F. I). 

 ad. sk. Godmari). 



d. S ad. sk. Madeira, June 27 (F. D. <?.). . 

 d'. Ad. sk. Madeira. 



e. Ad. sk. Tunis. 

 /. Ad. sk. Tripoli. 



g. <$ ad. sk. Granada, Spain, June 1870 (II. S.). 



h. c? ad. sk. Jesus del Valle, Grauada, June 



1870 (ST. S.). 



i. 2 ad. sk. Granada, May 1873 (H. &). 



k. Ad. sk. Gibraltar (L. II. Irby). 



I. Ad. st. Italy. 



m. Ad. sk. Rome (P. L. Sclaber). 



n. Ad. sk. Milan (P. L. Sdater). 



o. cJ ad. sk. Florence, Oct. 183-3. 



p. Ad. sk. Tuscany. 



q. c? ad. sk. Lebanon. 



r. $ ad. sk. Safed, Palestine. 



s. c? ad. sk. Ain Fijeh, Palestine, June 11, 1864 



(//. B. T.). 



t. <S ad. .sk. Taurus, Asia .Minor, April 29, 1876 



(C. G. Banford). 



u. Ad. sk. Erzeroum (Dickson $■ Suss), 



v. Ad. sk. Persia. 



w. Juv. sk. Near Isfahan, March 1870. 



x. d ad. sk. N.W. of Shiraz, June 22, 1872. 



y. 2 ad. sk. Karij Vallev, Elburz Mountains, 



Aug. 17, 1872. 



s. $ ad. sk. Oandahar, Dec. 1880. 



a'. 2 ad. sk. Candahar. Feb. 15, 1881. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Voy.H.M.S. 'Herald.' 

 L. Fraser [C.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Howard Saunders, 



Esq. ! P.J. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Purchased. 



India Mus. 



India Mus. 



Prof. H. II. Giglioli 



[P.]. 

 Prof. H. H. Giglioli 



[P.]. 

 Canon Tristram [C.l. 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Zool. Society [P.]. 



Purchased. 



Sir St. John [C.]. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[CO- 

 Col. 0. Swinhoe [P.]. 

 Col. C. Swinhoe[P.]. 

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