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Immature. Similar to the adults, but \ess rufous, especially on the 

 under parts, which very nearly approach in colouring to P. tliomensis. 

 Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-3, tail 2-2, tarsus 0-85. Type 

 of the species (Mus. Brit.). 



The Prince's Island Short-tailed Finch is probably confined 

 to Prince's Island. 



In the British Musenm there are three specimens : the 

 type labelled " West Africa," and the other two from Prince's 

 Island. Here Dr. Dohrn found a few of these Finches in a 

 very restricted locality of the large western bay. He says 

 that they were very fine songsters. 



Linurgus tliomensis. 



Phaeospiza thomensis, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1898, p. 148 St. Thomas In. 



Poliospiza rufobrunnea (nee Gray) Bocage, .Torn. Lisb. 1889, p. 232 

 St. Thomas Is. 



Male. Very similar to the type of L. rufohrunneus, but of a decidedly less 

 rusty shade ; chin, throat and breast buffy brown ; sides of head and neck 

 dark brown, and the crop, sides of body and under tail-coverts washed with 

 dark brown. Iris pale hazel ; bill brown, paler on the lower mandible; tarsi 

 and feet brown. Total length .5-5 inches, culmen 0--55, wing 3-2, tail 2 1, 

 tarsus 0-85. <? , 27. 6. 88. St. Thomas Is. (F. Newton). 



The Saint Thomas' Short-tailed Finch is confined to the 

 Island of St. Thomas. 



The type was procured on this island by Mr. Francisco 

 Newton, at Molita, some 250 feet above the sea, and is known 

 to the inhabitants as the " Pade," evidently a corruption for 

 "Pardal," the Portuguese name for our Common House- 

 Sparrow. Two examples of this species had previously been 

 collected by Dr. Albino Giraldes, and there are now three 

 specimens in the British Museum, presented by the Lisbon 

 Museum, so that we may presume that the species is not 

 uncommon on the island. 



