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species thus engaged in company with the White-rumped Swift at 

 Source des Trois Palmiers. 



The Crag-Martin breeds in quiet sechided spots, attaching its 

 nest to the roof of a cave, or in some rocky cleft, often quite inacces- 

 sible. Its eggs, four to six in number, somewhat resemble those of 

 the Common Swallow, being white, spotted with brown. 



Count Arrigoni degli Oddi has recently described a new form of 

 Crag-Martin from Sardinia under the name of Cotile ohsohta sarda 

 (Avicula LugHo-Agosto, 1902). 



Family FRINGILLID^. 



Subfamily FEINGILLIN^. 



CARDUELIS CARDUELIS (Linnfeus). 



GOLDFINCH. 



Fringilla carduelis, Liuu. Syst. Nat., i, p. 318 (1766) ; Malherbe, Cat. 



Rais. d'Ois. Alg. p. 14 (1846). 

 Carduelis carduelis, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 554 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mas. sii, p. 185. 

 Carduelis elegans, Loche, Expl. Sci. Alg. Ois. i, p. 154 (1867) ; Kocnig, 



J. f. 0. 1888, p. 248; id. J. f. 0. 1893, p. 65; Whitakcr, Ibis, 1894, 



p. 90. 

 Carduelis carduelis meridionalis, Erlangcr, J. f. 0. 1899, p. 465. 



Description. — Adult male, spring, from Gafsa, South Tunisia. 



Feathers at the base of bill and surrounding the eyes, lores, hinder part 

 of crown and sides of neck black ; forehead and upper throat glossy 

 crimson-red ; a patch behind the eyes, ear-coverts, lower throat and a 

 small space on the nape white ; back, scapulars and rump brown ; upper 

 tailcoverts black at the base and whitish at the tip ; middle pair of rectrices 

 black, slightly tipped with white, two outer pairs black, with long white 

 patches on inner webs, next adjoining pairs with only small white spots, 

 remaining tail-feathers black; wings black, conspicuously barred with bright 

 canary-yellow, secondaries slightly tipped with white ; sides of the breast 

 and flanks brown ; centre of breast, abdomen and under tail-coverts white. 



Iris very dark brown ; bill rosy-white, becoming brown at tip ; feet 

 flesh-colour. 



