of Birds from Erzeroom. - 367 



MOTACILLA MELANOCEPHALA, Licllt, 



One adult bird. 



Anthus pratensis (Linn.). 

 One specimen. 



Anthus campestris (Linn.). 



One specimen, not differing from examples from Southern 

 Europe. 



Lanius collurio (Linn.). 



One adult male, rather pale in general tone of colour. 



HiRUNDO RUSTicA, Linn. 

 One pair. 



Petronia stulta (Gmel.). 



Six specimens, all very clearly and. well marked. 



Montifringilla alpicola (Pall.). 



Only three specimens were sent, though it was marked on 

 the list as being very common. When, in 1876, I wrote the 

 article in the ' Birds of Europe ' on M. nivalis (vol. ii. p. 617) 

 I was inclined, owing to lack of material, to look on the 

 present as a somewhat doubtful species, but since then I 

 have had an opportunity of examining many specimens from 

 Turkestan besides these three from Erzeroom, and I am now 

 convinced that the Eastern and Western forms must be spe- 

 cifically separated, Montifringilla alpicola having the crown 

 and nape dull brown instead o£ ashy grey. This difference 

 is very well shown in Dr. Radde^s plate in his recently pub- 

 lished work on the birds of the Caucasus (^Ornis Caucasica,' 

 taf. viii.). Compared with specimens from Turkestan, these 

 examples from Erzeroom agree very closely, but are, if any- 

 thing, rather paler in tone of colour. 



Fringilla celebs, Linn. 

 One adult female. 



LiNOTA CANNABINA (LiuU.). 



One old male, rather brighter in colour than average 

 European specimens. 



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