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body, as also the under wing-coverts and axillaries ; tbroat 

 whitish. 



The full-grown young bird is similarly marked to the nestling 

 described, but all the streaks and spots are much paler, the throat 

 and under surface of body being white, with a few dusky streaks. 

 Jirdging from a specimen in the Tweeddale Collection from Canton, 

 the adult plumage is assumed during the next breeding season, and 

 eveu the white nape-plumes are put on, but the colouring of the 

 head and back is not so bright as in older birds. 



Hah. Southern and Central Europe, throughout Africa, and 

 across Asia to China and Japan in suitable localities, not extending 

 far north, and ranging into the Moluccas. North America to the 

 Lesser Antilles, Colombia, and Ecuador. 



a. Ad. St. 



b, c. (S ad. sk. 



d, e. S '^^- et juv. 



sk. 

 /. Ad. St. 

 g. Ad. sk. 

 h, i. Ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 k. Ad. St. 

 I. S jiiv. sk. 



m. $ ad. sk. 



n. Imm. sk. 



o, p. S ad. sk. 



,/. Juv. sk. 



;■, .s. Ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 t, II. Ad. sk. 



V. ,5 ad. sk. 



tv. X. Ad. ; y-/>'- 



Juv. sk. 

 v', d' . Ad. : e'. 



Juv. sk. 

 /'. Ad. sk. 



,/'. Ad. sk. 

 'h'. Ad. sk. 



i' . S «id. sk. 



1:' . (5juv.sk. 



/'. Juv. sk. 



;//. (S ad. : ?/, '/. 



Juv. sk. 

 p , q'. Ad. sk. 



Halifax, Yorkshire. 

 Ilansag Marshes, Iluugarv, 



May 1821. 

 Hungary, May, Aug. 



Athens. 



Tangiers (Sir J. D. Haij). 



Fantee, Gold Coast (H. T. 



Ussher Sf H. F. Blissett). 

 Transvaal [T. Ay res). 

 Potchefstroom, Transvaal, 



Aug. (T. Ay res). 

 Potchefstroom, July 10 (T. 



Ay res). 

 Elands Post (T. Atntore). 



Upper Shire Kiver, Nov., 



Feb. {A. Wliyte). 

 Aden. 



Egypt, March. 



Cyprus [F. II. IL (inillv- 



niard). 

 Turkev, April uO (7". liohsou). 

 J'.ugdad. 



Eao, Persian Gulf. 



Old Coll. 



Dr. R. B. Sharpe 



Hungarian iNational 



Museum. 

 Consul Merlin [P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Gurney Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



Dr. R. B. Sharpe 



[P.]. 

 II. H. Johnston, 



Esq., C.B. [P.]. 

 C. Chevallier, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 SheUey Coll. 



Lord Lilford [P.]. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 K. Loftus, Esq. [P.]. 



AV. D. Cumnnng. 

 Esq. [P.]. 

 Bushire, Persiau Gulf, April. A. J. V. Palmer, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 A fghani.stau ( Griffith). 

 Quetta, August. 



India ^luseum. 

 Colonel Swinhc 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 



Jacobabad, Sindh, Dec. 



{A. O. 11.). 

 Karachi, Sept. 18 (E. A. Hume Coll. 



Butler). 

 Siudh, Jan. 8. Hume Coll. 



Moultan, Oct. 29. Hume Coll. 



Cashmere. I'iuw ill Coll. 



