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with green and violet reflections ; the secondaries are square 

 at the ends, and the smaller primaries end in abrupt loavy 

 lines ; centre feathers of the tail brownish white, the outer 

 ones black, and the intermediate ones have more or less broad 

 white ends ; beak and legs fleshy brown ; irides white. 



Entire length 7 inches ; culmen O'S ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 4 ; tarsus 0"85. 



Fig. Gonld, B. of Eur. pi. 199. 



120. Eringilla ccELEBS, Linn. Chaffinch. 



I met with several specimens of this bird near Damietta in 

 March; and on the 2Sth of that month I shot one, in order to 

 verify the species. It is only a winter visitant to Egypt, and 

 appears to be rarely seen above Cairo, and probably never 

 ranges above the First Cataract. 



Von Heuglin (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. 640) observes that Dr. 

 Hartmann met with it at Thebes in February. This is the 

 most southern point on the Nile that we have any positive 

 record of its occurrence. 



Male. — Top of the head and back of the neck grey ; 

 upper part of the back and scapulars chestnut ; rump yel- 

 lowish green ; lesser wing-coverts white, the greater ones 

 tipped with yellowish white ; outer web of the quills narroAvly 

 edged with yellow, with some white at the base of all but 

 the three outer ones ; remainder of the wing brownish black ; 

 tail with some white on the two outer feathers, the remainder 

 dark brown ; cheeks, throat, and underparts ferruginous ; 

 beak and legs fleshy brown ; irides brown. 



Entire length 6 inches ; culmen 0*45 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 3'4 ; tarsus 0-7. 



