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CTTRSORIID.E. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 

 9'2 inches, culmen 07, wing 7*15, tail 4-2, tarsus 1*2. 



Young. Distinguished from the adults by the numerous white 

 edgings to the feathers of the upper surface ; all the light margins 

 accentuated by a sub-terminal bar of black ; quills and tail-feathers 

 similarly fringed and tipped with black; cheeks and throat creamy 

 white, with narrow blackish shaft-lines ; fore neck and lower throat 

 ashy grey, edged with white and mottled with sub-terminal bars of 

 black ; chest creamy buff ; remainder of under surface of body 

 white. 



Hab. Southern Europe and the countries of the Mediterranean 

 eastwards to Turkestan and the Indian Peninsula. "Wintering also 

 in Africa. 



a, b. c? ad. sk. 



c. $ ad. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. Imin. sk. 

 /. Ad. sk. 

 g. Ad. sk. 

 h. Ad. sk. 



i, k. Ad. sk, 

 I. Ad. sk. 

 m. cJ ad. sk. 



n, o. Ad. sk. 

 p, q. $ ad. sk. 

 r. Ad. sk. 



s, t. $ ad. sk. 

 m, v, w. 3 ad. ; 



x. 5 ad. sk. 

 y, a. <S 2 ad. sk. 



a'. Ad. sk. 



b'. ? ad. sk. 

 c. Ad.; d'-f. 



Imm. sk. 

 g'. 5 ad.sk. 



K. Ad.sk. 



i'. 2 ad. sk. 



k'. Ad. sk. 



V. 2 ad-sk. 



m'-s'. $ ad. ; t'. 



2 ad. sk. 

 ii . $ ad. sk. 



Malaga, S. Spain, April 



(H. Saunders). 

 Seville, June 12 (H. Saun- 

 ders). 

 Tangiers. 

 Marocco. 

 Marocco, Aug. 

 Zana, Algeria, June (0. S.). 

 Algeria. 

 Tunis. 

 Greece. 

 Missolonghi, May 30 (H. 



S). 

 Egypt, April (G. E. S.). 

 Egypt, April 19 (G.E.S.). 

 Fayoum, Egypt (von Heu- 



glin). 

 Palestine. 

 Cyprus. May 21 (Dr. Guil- 



lemard). 

 CaBsarea, Asia Minor, May 3 



(C. G. Danford). 

 Mesopotamia ( Commander 



Jones) . 

 Sbiraz, June (4750 feet). 

 Fao, Persian Gulf. 



Sarakhs, May 15 (Mvs. 



Petrop.). 

 Turkestan, May 2 (Mus. 



Petrop.). 

 Sarikol, May 9 (Dr. Stolicz- 



ka). 

 Bibinani, Afghanistan, 



May 18. 

 Kandahar, April 23 (Sir 



0. St. John). 

 Eastern Narra, Sind, May 



to June (S. Doig). 

 Allahabad, Mav 10 (A. O. 



#). 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 Lord Lilford [P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 



India Museum. 



Sir 0. St. John [C.], 

 W. D. Cumming, 



Esq. [P ] 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Second Yarkand 



Mission. 

 Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll, 



