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Adults. Similar to P. europoca, but much larger, and the 

 colours purer, especially the red colour of the breast. Total 

 length, 6 inches ; culmen, 0-5 ; wing, 27 ; tail, 2'6 ; tarsus, 07. 



Range in Great Britain. Two specimens of the large Bullfinch 

 were exhibited by Colonel Irby at a meeting of the Zoological 

 Society on the igth of November, 1895. They were shot on 

 the Yorkshire coast about the ist of November, 1893, and had 

 been mounted by local bird-stuffers as common Bullfinches. 

 A third specimen has been recorded by Mr. J. H. Gurney as 

 having been obtained on the Caistor denes in Norfolk. 



Range outside the British Islands. Replaces P. europcea in 

 Scandinavia, and from Poland eastwards throughout Siberia. 



Habits Exactly like those of its smaller western representa 

 tive. The eggs are slightly larger than those of P. europcea. 



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THE SUB-ALPINE WAKBLER. SYLVIA SUB-ALPINA. 



S}lvia sub-alp ina, Temm., Man. d'Orn., i., p. 214 (1820, ex 

 Bonelli, MSS.); Dresser, B. Eur., ii., p. 389, pi. 59 (1875). 



Adult Male. Slaty grey above ; wings brown, with pale edges 

 to the coverts, the secondaries more broadly margined ; tail 

 brown, the three or four outside feathers with more or less white ; 

 chin, throat, and breast chestnut, shading off into paler chest- 

 nut on the flanks ; the centre of the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts whitish ; under wing-coverts pale grey, with darker 

 centres ; axillaries pale vinous grey ; a narrow white line along 

 the sides of the head separating the chestnut of the lower 

 surface from the grey of the upper ; bill dark horn-colour, the 

 lower mandible light yellowish at the base ; feet dusky-brown ; 

 iris brown; eyelid reddish. Total length, 4-6 inches ; culmen, 

 0-45 ; wing, 2-3; tail, 2'i ; tarsus, 07. 



Adult Female. Browner than the male above, and not so 

 ashy grey. The chestnut of the under parts replaced by buffy- 

 white, with a vinous tinge on the sides of the breast. The 

 birds of the year are buffy-brown on the breast and flanks, the 

 male being a little greyer tha'.i the female. 



