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layan specimens ; the desert varieties have the upper parts washed 

 with different shades of isabelline and the uuderparts paler. 



Younger specimens which have not quite completed their first 

 moult still retain some of the outer secondaries and primaries of the 

 first plumage ; these have the outer webs irregularlj' notched with 

 buff', edged with black, and are minutely dotted with the latter 

 colour ; otherwise the plumage is similar to that of the adult. 

 Bill brownish black. Legs and feet orauge-red. 



A quite young bird has the general colour of the upper parts 

 sandy brown, the mantle and wing-coverts have a buft' spot at the 

 extremity of each feather, and the outer webs of the quills are 

 notched and mottled with buff. The tail is sandy, finely mottled 

 with buff and dusky. The underparts are whitish, most of the chest- 

 and breast-feathers with paler spots at the extremities of the shafts. 



Hah. Ranging in the west to the Ionian Islands [and perhaps 

 found on the mainland of Greece], in the east to China, in the 

 north to Mongolia and Turkestan, and in the south to the Persian 

 Gulf and apparently to Aden (C. arenarius, Hume). Island of 

 St. Helena [introduced]. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b, c. Ad. sk. 

 d-h. S 2 ad. sk. 



*') ^-6 2 ^^- ®t- 



I. Imm. sk. [var.]. 



Hi. c? ad. sk. 



n. Ad. sk. 



o. 2 ad. sk. 



p, (J. Ad. sk. 



r. Ad. sk. 



s. Juv. sk. 



t,u. 2 ad. et juv. 



sk. 

 V. Ad. sk. 



IV. Ad. sk. 



x-a'. cJ 2 ad. sk. 

 b'. J ad. sk. 



o', cV. S $ ad. sk. 



e' . Ad. sk. 



/'. <S ad. sk. 



Zante, Ionian Islands. 



Grecian Archipelago. 

 Cyprus, Aprd, May, Nov. 

 El Busrah, Palestine. 

 Smyrna, Asia Minor. 



Anasha, Taurus, Asia Minor, 

 U&vch. (C.G.Danford). 



Hassan Chouslar, Anatolia, 

 Jan. (C. G. Danford). 



Erzeroom, Turkey in Asia, 

 Sept. {Dickson ^- Ross). 



Bagdad. 



Kiriind, Persia, June. 



Mungerrah, Persia. 



North of Shiraz, S. Persia, 



July. 

 Bushire, Persian Gulf, Feb. 



Muscat, Arabia. 



NearQuettah(fF. Griffith). 

 Bala jMurghab, Afghanistan, 



Dec. (J. Aitchison). 

 Khusan, Nov. {J. Aitchison). 



Khelat, Baluchistan, Nov. 



{Capt. Maiden). 

 Low hills below Duryale, N. 

 Sindh, Jan. {A. 6. H.). 



Sir Charles Fellowes 



[P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Lord Lilford [P.]. 

 Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 R. Cumherbatch, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Sir Kenneth Loftus 



Sir Kenneth Loftus 



Su^ Kenneth Loftus 



[P.]. 

 W.T.Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 A. J. V. Palmer, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 India Museum [P.]. 

 Afghan Boundary 



Comm. [P.]. 

 Afghan Boundaiy 



Comm. [P.]. 

 Hume CoU. 



Hume Coll. 



