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being the Cornish Chough, and the smaller with 

 yellow legs, feet, and bill being the Alpine Chough. 



Other birds I ought to mention are Cormorants, 

 Indian Crows, and Skuas. 



{"lo be CO ft tinned.) 



Pytelia phoenicopteia. 

 By WESr.EV T. Pack, F.Z.S. 



This beautiful and somewhat uncommon though 

 well known bird is more generally spoken of as the 

 Aurora Finch. It is a native of Africa, and has quite 

 an extensive range over Senegambia, the Upper Nile 

 region, and Equatorial Africa. 



Plumage : The general body - colour is bluish- 

 grey, paler and whiter on the under parts, and 

 washed with vinous brown on the upper parts ; 

 lower back and upper tail coverts, rich crimson ; 

 lesser wing coverts, red ; median and greater cov- 

 erts, brownish-grey edged with red: flights, brown, 

 partially edged with dull red : central tail feathers, 

 rich crimson, with the outer ones blackish edged with 

 crimson.*' The whole of the under surface is regu- 

 larly barred or scaled with greyish-white, (in some 

 specimens the white is almost pure on the abdomen 

 and vent). These barrings vary a good deal in indi- 

 vidual specimens, as also does the amount of white on 

 the lower surface ; some bodies that have been sent 

 to me for identification at various times, have been 

 scaled almost as regularly and distinctly as a Spice 



• Most of the feathers of the upper surface have their tips edged 

 with either dull red, or ruddy brown. 



