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sides of the crown, throat and hind-neck sandy buff; back, 

 scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts umber earth-brown ; the 

 feathers with lighter edges ; quills and larger wing-coverts 

 dark brown, externally, except at the tip, broadly margined 

 with rich rose-red, tinged with carmine; inner secondaries tip- 

 ped with white ; upper tail-coverts rose pink ; outer rectrices 

 white with brown shafts ; remaining tail-feathers dark brown, 

 slightly tipped and marked with white ; lores and feathers on 

 the side of the head at the base of the bill carmine red ; auri- 

 culars coloured like the sides of the neck, but marked with 

 dark brown ; throat and flanks like the back, but paler, the 

 feathers with dark centres; centre of the breast, abdomen, 

 under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts white, slightly tinged 

 with rose-colour ; bill brownish yellow ; legs light brown ; iris 

 dark brown. Total length about 5 -75 inches ; culmen, 0'52; 

 wing, 4*15 ; tail, 2*5 ; tarsus, 0*78. 



Adult Female. — Differs from the made in being duller in 

 colour, the red portions of the plumage much paler, the feathers 

 on the crown having much broader sandy buff margins, and 

 the white on the underparts covering a rather larger area. 

 Culmen, 05; wing, 3'8 ; tail, 2 35; tarsus, 0*75. — Dresser, 

 fi Birds of Europe." 



744 bis.— Propasser edwardsi, Verr. 



Male with a general brownish tint above, richly glossed 

 with crimson ; lores, forehead, supercilia and cheeks pale silvery 

 pink, the bases of the feathers brown ; head above dark crim- 

 son, with blackish centres to the feathers ; ear-coverts and sides 

 of the neck duller crimson ; the centres of the feathers broader 

 and less distinct ; back with broad dashes of dark earthy brown ; 

 the edges of the feathers pale, with a gloss of deep rose colour, 

 approaching crimson ; rump and upper tail-coverts nearly the 

 same colour as the back, the dark centres of the feathers being 

 less marked, and the paler margins with their crimson gloss 

 broader ; wing and tail-feathers earthy brown, with red 

 brown exterior margins, and pale rosy spots on the tips of 

 the outer webs of the wing-coverts, and of the last three quills ; 

 chin greyish ; throat full rose colour, darker than the cheeks, 

 with a silvery gloss ; the breast is deeper and darker red, 

 the feathers having pale rosy edges and narrow dark central 

 stripes ; abdomen pink, also with narrow streaks ; under tail- 

 coverts brown, edged with pink ; thighs and flanks brown, 

 slightly tiuged here and there with pink ; bill dusky ; legs 



