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them have only a tint of rose-colour on the breast and rump. 

 Three of these were shot in April, and one in June. They 

 may be taken as types of the supposed species L. exilipes. 

 All the feathers, but especially those on the rump, the wing- 

 coverts, the inner secondaries, and the inner web of the out- 

 side tail-feathers, are broadly margined with white. There 

 are scarcely any dark centres to the feathers on the rump, and 

 none on the under tail-coverts ; and the underparts are speci- 

 ally white. Two males, without the red breast, have the same 

 characters, but are more abraded in plumage, and show less 

 of the white margin to the feathers. A skin dated 12th July 

 has the feathers so abraded that the white rump, and the 

 white margins to the feathers generally, have almost disap- 

 peared ; but the under tail-coverts are pure white. A skin 

 dated 13th of June, from Norway, may be taken as full sum- 

 mer plumage of this form. The white margins to the tail- 

 feathers are very conspicuous ; but the red on the breast is 

 more developed, and the mealy appearance of the bird has 

 suffered from the abrasion of the feathers. Two females may 

 possibly belong to this form, one of them having un streaked 

 under tail-coverts, and the other an unstreaked rump ; but 

 neither of them shows the broad margins to the tail-feathers. 

 Another skin, dated the 7th of April, has the unstreaked 

 rump, but streaked under tail-coverts. The breast is very 

 carmine for the alledged species L. exilipes ; and this skin also 

 wants the broad white margins to the tail-feathers ; but, as 

 it shows a good deal of the immature buff-colour on the upper 

 parts, it may be a bird which has retained other marks of 

 immaturity. 



Four skins with richly carmine breasts, and traces of car- 

 mine on the rump, all shot in June, are representative ex- 

 amples of L. linaria in breeding-plumage. They have all 

 streaked rumps and under tail-coverts ; but one of them has 

 broad white edgings to the inner webs of the tail-feathers. 

 In two other skins, one shot on the 28th of July and the 

 other on the 2nd of August, the plumage is very abraded, 

 and the carmine on the breast nearly lost. The remaining 

 skins have no carmine on the breast. In all of these the 



