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Bright of that place. A male and female shot at Diss in 

 Norfolk, in 1829, were in the collection of the Rev. Francis 

 Hcnson at Cambridge. Other specimens have been obtained 

 in Norfolk. I learn from the Rev. Richard Lubbock that 

 one was killed at Hethersett, near Norwich, in April 1824, 

 which is still preserved ; and it is stated in the Transactions 

 of the Linnean Society, that a pair of these birds built a nest 

 in the garden of the Rev. Mr. Lucas of Ormsby. Mr. Selby 

 mentions an instance of a female that was killed in a garden 

 at Tynemouth in Durham, which is also stated by Mr. 

 Bewick ; but this bird does not appear to have been seen in 

 Scotland, or on its islands. M. Nilsson says that it occasion- 

 ally breeds in Sweden. 



In Germany, Holland, and France, this bird is not un- 

 common ; and it is still more numerous in Spain, Provence, 

 and Italy. Edwards, the English naturalist, had one sent 

 him that was shot on the rock of Gibraltar. At Malta, these 

 birds arrive in September on their way back to pass the 

 winter in Africa ; and the Zoological Society have received 

 specimens from Tunis, Egypt, Smyrna, and Trebizond. 



The adult male has the beak orange brown ; from the base 

 of the beak to the eye a dark-coloured streak ; irides lake 

 red : the whole of the head, neck, and body, above and be- 

 low, with the upper and under tail-coverts, bright gamboge 

 yellow ; the wings black ; the ends of the feathers of the 

 spurious wing yellow ; the outer edge of the primaries, and 

 the tips of the secondaries and tertials, yellowish white ; 

 upper surface of the two middle tail-feathers black, tipped 

 with yellow ; the outer tail-feather on each side has its basal 

 half black, the remaining portion yellow : in the tail-feathers 

 on each side between the outside feather and those in the 

 centre, the black colour occupies a larger space in each suc- 

 cessively ; the tail in form is slightly rounded : under wing- 

 coverts yellow ; under surface of the quill-feathers and the 



