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Adult Female. — (Pagham.) Resembles the male, but is much 

 duller in colour ; the throat and superciliary stripes are yellow- 

 ish white, and the underparts are much paler yellow. 



Young in first Autumn. — (Pagham, July.) Upper parts 

 brownish olive, tinged with green on the rump ; underparts 

 buffy white, tinged with sulphur yellow on the lower abdo- 

 men ; the lower throat and breast washed with brownish buff, 

 forming a sort of dark band; superciliary stripe buffy white; 

 wings and tail as in the adult, but with rather broader and 

 whiter margins, tinged with buff, but not with yellow. 



Observations. — In autumn dress the adult birds much resemble 

 the young above described, but lack the buffy brown on the lower 

 throat and breast. But sometimes the old males appear to 

 retain their summer dress very late ; for one killed on the 

 16th September differs only from old males in full spring 

 plumage in having the underparts rather paler. I have 

 figured an old male with the yellow head from Southern Russia, 

 in which plumage it is called M. campestris, by the continental 

 dealers ; but I may add that I have an old male from Hamp- 

 stead, near London, in the same plumage, except that, if any- 

 thing, the Russian specimen is a trifle cleaner and brighter 

 in coloui', though there is scarcely any difference between 

 them. In this plumage the sides of the head and forehead, 

 as far as the centre of the crown, are like the underparts, rich 

 canary yellow, and only towards the hind crown and nape 

 does this colour gradually merge into green on the hind neck 

 and back. Donovan (I.e.) figures a British-killed bird which 

 is much more richly coloured than any South Russian example 

 I have ever seen, the entire head and upper neck being rich 

 canary yellow. My second specimen, from Southern Russia, 

 has the head coloured as in ordinary adult British birds. — 

 Dresser, "Birds of Europe. 1 " 



594.— Budytes calcaratus, Hodgson. 



Under this name should probably stand the species described 

 by Jerdon under the name of citreola ; the true citreola is of 

 course quite a different species, and in the fullest breeding 

 plumage has the greater part of the upper surface grey, with 

 only a black hood or cowl over the nape and upper back; on 

 the other hand this present species calcaratus, which is des- 

 cribed and figured by Gould under the name of citreoioides, 

 has the entire back jet black in breeding plumage. 



