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primary being intermediate between the fifth and sixth, and 

 the length of the wing from the carpal joint being 2*5 

 inches. 



Fringilla linaria. 



Although the Mealy Redpoll visits England in some 

 numbers every autumn, it was only known to have occurred 

 once in Ireland (in Co. Kildare) until a second example was 

 caught on the 14th of September, 1890, at the lighthouse on 

 the Tearaght Rock, off the coast of Co. Kerry (Barrington, 

 'Zoologist/ 1891, p. 186). 



This example is a very interesting one. I take it to be an 

 adult female. It has much crimson on the forehead, but 

 none whatever on the breast. The upper and under tail- 

 coverts and the flanks are very broadly streaked with brown 

 — too much so for it to be regarded even as a young female 

 of the Greenland race, which has been described as Fringilla 

 hornemanni, or of the smaller arctic race Fringilla exilipes. 

 It has a large bill, and is otherwise a large bird, measuring 

 in length of wing 3*1, of tail 2*25, and of tarsus '7 inch. It 

 can scarcely be regarded as a typical Fringilla linaria (which 

 varies in length of wing from 2*65 to 3"0 inches), but seems 

 to be an intermediate form between the so-called Fringilla 

 holboelli and Fringilla rostrata. It seems impossible to 

 regard either of these forms as specifically distinct from 

 Fringilla linaria, and the evidence of their being large local 

 races is extremely unsatisfactory. 



XLVII.— Ow the Birds collect t^d by Mr. F. J. Jackson, F.Z.S., 

 during his recent Expedition to Uganda through the Ter- 

 ritory of the Imperial British East-African Company. 

 By^ R. BowDLER Sharpe, LL.U., F.L.S., &c. With 

 Notes by the Collector. — Part II.* 



(Plates XII., XIII.) 



In this second portion of my description of Mr. Jackson's 

 collection, the families Motacillidse, Certhiidse, Nectariniidse, 



* For Fart I., see above, p. 233. 



