192 



Mr. H u F. Witlierby on 



COCCOTHRAUSTES VULGARIS BUVRYI Cab. 



Coccothraustes buvryi Cabanis, J. f. O. 1862, p. 259. 



Coccothraustes coccothraustes buvryi Cab. j Hartert, Vog. 

 pal. Fauna, p. 57. 



S ad., March 25 ; S ad., ^ ad., ? ad., ? ad., March 31. 

 H. Meskoutine. 



The Algerian Hawfinch is quite distinct from the typical 

 European bird. Cabanis's original description is not referred 



Text-fig. 15. 

 a. b. c. 



Fourth primaries of : a. Coccothraudcs vulgaris buvryi ; 

 h, c. Coccothraustes vulgaris typicus. 



to in the ' Catalogue of Birds ' (vol. xii. p. 36), and there is 

 no specimen from Algeria in the British Museum. That the 

 Algerian form is distinct, seems to have been overlooked 

 since 1862 until the publication of Dr. Hartert's first volume 

 on the Palajarctic birds. 



