526 FEINGILLID^;. 



pi. 156 (1854) ; Jaub. et, Barth.-Lapomm. p. 155 (1859) ; Tristr. 

 Ibis, 1859, p. 295 ; Salvia, t. c. p. 314; Linderm. Vbg. Griechenl. 

 p. 54 (1860) ; Powi/s, Ibis, 1860, p. 138 ; Schl. Dier. Nederl. Voq. 

 pi. 15. figs. 3, 4 (1861) ; Gatke, Ibis, 1862, p. C90 ; Gray, List 

 Brit. B. p. 104 (1863) ; Wriqht, Ibis, 1864, pp. 54, 292 ; Giglioli, 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 57 ; Crewe, t. c. p. 114 ; More, t. c. p. 126 ; Tristr. 

 Ibis, 1867, p. 367 ; Deql. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 311 (1867) ; 

 Loche, Expl. Sci. Alger, ii. p. 171 (1867); Smith, Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 444 ; Burqgr. Vogelf. Norddeutschl. p. 72 (1869) ; Saunders, 

 Ibis, 1869, p. 172 ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 88 (1869) ; Elwes 

 Sr Buckley, Ibis, 1870, p. 194 ; Wright, t. c. p. 489 ; Fritsch, Vog. 

 Eur. tab. 17. figs. 3, 4 (1871); Saluad. Faun. Ital, Ucc. p. 138 



(1871) : Gould, B. Gt. Br. iii. pi. 23 (c. 1871) ; R. Gray, B. West 

 Scotl. p. 131 (1871) ; Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 177, pi. 210 (1871) ; 

 Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 217 ; Hurting, Handb. Brit. B. p. 26 



(1872) ; Brooke, Ibis, 1873, p. 246 ; Cordeaux, Ibis, 1875, p. 183 ; 

 Danf. # Harvie Brown, t. c. p. 312 ; Irby, B. Gibr. p. 116 (1875); 

 Fallon, Ois. Belg. p. 89 (1875) ; Roioley, Orn. Misc. ii. p. 73, 

 pi. xlvi. figs. 2, 4 (1876); Wharton, Ibis, 1876, p. 25; Danf. 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 22 ; Irby, Ibis, 1883, p. 184 ; B. 0. U. List Brit. B. 

 p. 60 (1883) ; Chapman, Ibis, 1884, p. 95 ; Saunders, t. c. p. 376 ; 

 Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 156 (1884) ; Radde, Orn. Cam. 

 p. 191 (1884) ; Wliitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 40 ; Girjlioli, Avif. Ital. 

 p. 48 (1886) ; Salvad. Eleneh. Ucc. Ital. p. 163 (1887). 



Le Zizi ou Bruant de Haye, Month. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 347 (1778). 

 Cirl Bunting, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 190 (1783). 

 Emberiza eleathorax, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 135 (1802). 

 Citrinella cirlus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 113, no. 7684 (1869). 



Adult male in summer plumage. General colour above chestnut, 

 with central streaks of black to the dorsal feathers, which are also 

 slightly edged with ashy fulvous ; lower back and rump olive-greenish, 

 with blackish streaks down the centres of the feathers ; upper tail- 

 coverts more rufescent, streaked with black along the shaft ; lesser 

 wing-coverts ashy olive ; median coverts dusky brown, edged with 

 ashy olive ; greater coverts dusky brown, externally fulvous-brown, 

 with pale fulvous tips; bastard-wing and primary-coverts dusky 

 brown, narrowly fringed with ashy fulvous ; quills blackish brown, 

 ed^ed with olive, the inner secondaries externally chestnut like the 

 back, with a spot of the same colour at the end of the inner web ; 

 tail-feathers blackish brown, with ashy fulvous margins, the outer 

 feather white along the outer web, and with a large wedge-shaped 

 mark of white on the inner web, leaving an oblique basal mark of 

 black on the inner web as well as the shaft, which widens out slightly 

 towards the end of the feather ; the penultimate feather all blackish 

 excepting a smaller wedge-shaped mark near the end of the inner 

 web ; head and hind neck olive-green, the latter with narrow shaft- 

 lines of black, the crown more broadly streaked with black ; a supra- 

 loral spot, as well as a streak over the eye, sulphur-yellow ; lores 

 and eyelid black; feathers below the eye sulphur-yellow, extending 

 on to the ear-coverts, the upper and hinder margins of which are 

 black ; cheeks and upper throat black, followed by a crescentic band 

 of sulphur-yellow, which reaches to the sides of the neck ; fore neck 

 and chest dull olive-greenish ; breast pale chestnut, with ashy 



