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November, 1887, on a mud bank out in the lake a little to 
the north-east of the town of Sambhur, clearly laid during the 
night of the 4th, as it lay right in the path followed daily by 
the labourers. He also sends me an egg of the smaller species 
laid on the lake edge near Mata Pahar, about May, 1885, 
the hot season following a great flood, when the flamingoes 
remained unusually late. 
THE HawFIncH From AtTTock, by R. Bowdler Sharpe.— 
Three specimens of a Hawfinch were collected at Attock in 
the Punjab in March, 1869, and in February, 1870, by Colonel 
Delmé-Radcliffe. They are mentioned by Mr. Hume in “ The 
Ibis” for 1869, p. 456, and again in “ Stray Feathers” for 1877, 
Vol. VII, pp. 413, 462, and are there referred to C. vulgaris, L.e., 
C. coceothraustes (Linn.). In the Hume Collection there were 
no specimens of true C. coccothraustes from Europe ; and the 
comparison of these specimens was therefore doubtless made 
with plates of the European bird; but on comparing the three 
birds with a series of true C. coccothraustes, it seems to me 
certain that they are distinct from the European Hawfinch. 
The female differs from the corresponding sex of C. cocco- 
thraustes in being ochreous brown above, pale ashy ochreous 
on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts, while the 
crown of the head is ashy grey like the hind neck; sides of 
face also ashy grey, washed with ochreous ; breast and sides of 
the body ochreous buff, instead of vinaceous brown; centre 
of breast and abdomen white. Total length, 6°75 inches ; cul- 
men, 0°75; wing, 3 9 ; tail, 2°35 ; tarsus, 0°8. 
The male difters less from C. coccothraustes than the female, 
but it is distinguished by its paler coloration, and by the breast 
and sides of the body being light orange-brown instead of 
vinaceous. ‘Total length, 69 inches ; culmen, 0'8; wing, 38 ; 
tail, 2°1 ; tarsus, 0°8. 
I may add that the Attock bird is not C. japonicus, for it 
has a greater extent of pure white on the wing-coverts than 
in even true C. coccothraustes. OC. japonicus is scarcely to be 
distinguished from the European bird; and differs only in 
having the median and greater wing-coverts pale drab at the 
ends instead of white. I propose to call the Coccothraustes 
from Attock after my friend Mr. Hume, C. hwmii. Whether 
it is the Hawfinch recorded by Lieutenant Barnes as a per- 
manent resident at Chaman in Southern Afghanistan 
(S. F., IX, p. 456) must remain a question to be decided by an 
examination of specimens, which I have not yet had the oppor- 
tunity of doing. 
