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the breast; tail blackish ; the central rectrices lighter and bor- 

 dered with dull ochreous; the two outer feathers on each side 

 obliquely marked with white on the terminal half; bill blackish 

 brown ; iris brown ; leg's dull brown. Total length about 6 

 inches; culmen, - 4; height of bill at base, 02 ; wing, 3*3 ; tail, 

 2-9 ; tarsus, 08. 



Adult Female in Slimmer. — (Smyrna, 27th March). Rather 

 smaller than the male; crown and ear-coverts reddish brown, 

 varied with dark brown ; a white patch below the ear-coverts 

 and a dull white line over the eye ; throat dull white ; the 

 lower and upper breast striped with reddish brown and black- 

 ish ; a broad black line passes from the base of the bill down 

 each side of the throat ; flanks striped with reddish brown ; 

 upper parts paler than in the male. 



Adult Male in Winter. — (Ismid, November). The black on 

 the head is almost entirely obscured by broad reddish brown 

 margins to the feathers, and those on the throat by dull white ; 

 the white collar is obscured by ochreous grey ; the breast and 

 flauks are washed with creamy grey; and the feathers on the 

 upper parts of the body have broad greyish ochreous margins, 

 giving it a very pale appearance ; bill dull horn ; the lower 

 mandible yellowish. 



Young in first Autumn — Resembles the female, but are paler 

 and duller in colour, and have the throat and breast marked 

 with dark stripes ; the line over the eye is yellowish ; and the 

 sides of the neck are dull ochreous, marked with brown. — ! 

 Dresser, " Birds of JEurope." 



728 bis.— Coccothraustes vulgaris, Pall. 



Adult Male. — Forehead yellowish fawn colour, gradually be- 

 coming yellowish brown on the hind crown; sides of the head 

 pale sandy ochre, with a brownish tinge ; a narrow line round 

 the base of the bill ; lores, and a large patch covering the chin 

 and upper throat, velvety black ; hind neck ashy grey, this 

 colour forming a collar, which extends to the sides of the neck ; 

 back and scapulars dark chestnut brown ; rump fawn brown ; 

 quills bluish black, with a large patch of white on the inner 

 web ; the inner primaries aud secondaries glossed with purple ; 

 the fifth and succeeding primaries peculiarly widened and hooked 

 at the tip ; secondaries square at the tip ; innermost secon- 

 daries brownish fawn ; primary coverts blackish ; larger coverts 

 white, except the innermost ones, which are fawn colour ; lesser 

 coverts chestnut brown ; central rectrices greyish brown, tipped 



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