All rights ,ese7ved,'] [JUNE, 1907. 



BIRD NOTES: 



THE JOURNAL OF 



THE FOREIGN BIRD CLUB. 



^be (5enu5 Spermopbila. 



By Wesley T. Page, F.Z.S. 

 fContinned from page ^oj. 



The Half-white Finch. 



2. .S". hypoleuca. 

 I do not think any living specimen of this species 

 has yet reached this conntry, and not having a skin in 

 my cabinet I have been compelled to quote from the 

 Museum Catalogue. 



" Adult male : General colour, above slaty-grej' ; lesser wing- 

 " coverts, like the back ; median and greater coverts, dusky 

 " blackish, edged with slaty-grey ; bastard wing, primary coverts 

 " and quills, blackish, fringed with ashj'-grey, hoar3--whitish 

 "on the primaries, the inner ones of which have white bases to 

 " the outer webs, forming a large alar speculum ; upper tail 

 " coverts, a little more ashy than the l:)ack ; tail feathers 

 "blackish, edged with ashy-gre}- aud tipped with ashy; crown 

 " of head like the back, slightly mottled with obscure dusky 

 "centres to the featliers ; sides of face, lores, feathers round 

 " the eye, and ear coverts, slaty - grey ; cheeks, throat and 

 " under surface of body, white ; sides of neck, slaty-grey ; 

 " lower throat and foreneck, washed with ashy-gra}' ; sides of 

 "body and flanks also ashy-grey; under tail coverts, white ; 

 "'bill, reddish-grey-brown' (Neuwied), 'fleshy red' (W. A. 

 " Forbes), ' legs greyish brown ; iris greyish brown ' (Neuwied), 

 " ' iris brown ' (W. A. Forbes). Total length 4-65 in., tail 2 in. 



"I believe that two species are confounded under the 

 " heading of 6\ hypoleuca, for some male birds are entirely 

 "white below, without an\' grey on the fore neck. The only 



