2. coutmba. 



301 



upper wing-coverts next to the back greyish brown ; lower back, 

 romp, and upper tail-coverts lead-grey ; lower part of the fore 

 neck and breast vinous purple, gradually fading into the pale grey 

 of the sides, abdomen, and under tail-coverts ; the anterior upper 

 wing-coverts white, forming a white band along the edge of the 

 wing ; winglec and primary -coverts blackish ; quills brown, the 

 primaries edged with white on the outer web ; under wing-coverts 

 lead-grey ; tail above grey at the base, blackish at the tip, below 

 dark grey, paler at the base, and with a broad light grey band in 

 the middle : bill orange-red at the base, yellow towards the tip ; 

 membrane covering the nostrils almost white : irides straw-yellow ; 

 tarsi and feet red. Length about 17 inches, wing 10, tail 5-75, 

 bill o-74, tarsus VI. 



Female. A little smaller and somewhat duller in colouring than 

 the male. 



Young. Duller and paler in coloration than the male, and it lacks 

 the white patches on the sides of the neck : bill dull red at the 

 base, greyish towards the tip. 



Bab. Western Palsearctic Region, as far east as Northern 

 Persia. It lives also in the Azores and in Madeira. 



a-d. $ 2 a d. et 

 pull. sk. 



e. Ad. st. [albino]. 



f. g. Ad. sk. 

 '/,. Ad. sk. 



I. Juv. sk. 

 k. Ad. st. 



l-o. S 2 a d- et 



pull. st. 

 ;>. Ad. sk. 



</, r, e. Ad. et pull. 



st. 

 /. Ad. sk. 

 u, r. (J ad. sk. 

 >r. 6 ad. sk. 



*i .'/• c? 2 a d- sk. 



:. J ad. sk. 

 a . Ad. sk. 

 V. Ad.sk. 

 <•'. Ad. <k. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. c? imni. sk. 

 f,g'. 6 2 ml. 8k. 



h', i'. Ad. st. 



k'. Skeleton. 



r. skuii. 



Great Britain. 



Great Britain. 

 Scotland. 

 Aboyne, Scotland. 

 Yester, Feb. 

 Leicestershire. 



Norfolk, June. 



Park Hatch, Surrey, .Ian. (F. 



D. Godman ). 

 Cambridgeshire. 



Maidenhead. 

 Cookham ( JF. Briggs). 

 Cookham, March (R. B. 



Sharpe). 

 Avington, Mav, Aug. (G. 



E. s. ). 

 Avington, May. 

 Colgate, April (II. Agate). 

 Wiltshire. 



St. Bride's, S. Wales, April. 



Sweden. 



Holland, Oct. (C.Dack). 



Mesopotamia (Commander 



Jones). 

 Baghdad. 



S.Germany. 



Gould Coll. 



Mr. Day [P.]. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddde Coll. 

 Theodore Walker, 



Esq. I '. . 

 Lord Walsingham 



[P.]. 

 Salviu-Godman Coll. 



J. Baker, Esq. [P.]. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Cull. 



Shelley Coll. 



Sharpe Cull. 

 Sharpe I 'ell. 

 Col. Montagu Coll. 

 Hon. W. Edwardea 



rp.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Seehohm Coll. 



Iudia Museum [P.]. 



Kenneth Loft us. Esq. 



[P.]. 

 I »arwin Coll. 

 I»r. Gunther'a Coll. 



