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moustachial streak ; on the chest the spots are slightly more 

 triangular, but du the lower part of the breast they take the 

 form of narrow lines ; flanks slightly rufescent, and strongly 

 washed with brown, being at the same time distinctly striped 

 with dark brown ; under tail-coverts buffy white, with slight 

 central streaks of brown; under wing-coverts of the same 

 colour, varied down the centre of each feather with greyish ; 

 bill horn colour, with a slight dash of red ; the edge of the upper 

 mandible and the whole of the lower one yellow ; feet pale 

 fleshy brown; iris dark brown. Total length, 7 inches; 

 culmen, 0'52 ; tail, 3*1 ; tarsus, TO. 



« Q 0St — A great deal of difference is observable in Buntings 

 killed in the spring and summer, some being almost pure white 

 underneath, with very few and indistinct stripes on the breast, 

 the general shade of the plumage being a pale greyish brown ; 

 others, on the other hand, are very thickly spotted on the under 

 surface of the body. English examples are slightly darker 

 than the Continental birds, the pale-coloured ones in our collec- 

 tion being from Smyrna aud Turkestan, so that, perhaps, this 

 peculiar variation is confined to the eastern specimens. 



" Young. — Much darker than the adult, and more ochreous- 

 forown, with a very strong tinge of ochre on the breast ; the 

 markings on the latter more confused, and not nearly so 

 distinct as in the adult/' 



751 ter.— Linaria cannabina, Lin, 



The Linnet, if Mr. Murray's discovery is to be relied on, 

 receives an equal extension of its area of distribution to the 

 Common Bunting. Hitherto known as generally distributed 

 throughout Europe and in winter in Northern Africa, extending 

 westwards to the Canaries, and Madeira, and eastwards as far as 

 Turkestan, it had not been previously observed any where 

 south of the Caspian, further east than Shiraz. 



The specimen obtained is an adult male, but there is very 

 little red on the head, and that on the breast is considerably 

 duller than in the summer plumage. It is absolutely identical, 

 so far as plumage is concerned, with European specimens with 

 which I have compared it. It measures :— 



Length, 5*8; wing, 3*1; tail, 2*3; tarsus, 0"62; bill from 

 forehead, 0*5. 



This is rather longer than European specimens, and Blanford 

 has already remarked that some Persian specimens have a 

 rather long bill. I reproduce for reference Dresser's full 

 description : — 



" Adult male in summer. — Forehead blood red ; crown, hind 

 neck, and sides of the neck otherwise brownish grey ; the hind 



