136 SPECTACLED WABBLEB. 



with the throat and neck ashy white; the body below is of a reddish 

 ash-colour, with tints lighter in the middle of the abdomen; wings 

 brown, with the coverts largely bordered with red; tail equally brown, 

 with the quills fringed and terminated with reddish ash, and the 

 inferior half of the one most external on each side white. 



The figure of this bird is from a skin in my own collection, taken 

 by Dr. Leith Adams in Malta. The egg is from a specimen sent me 

 by M. E. Verreaux. 



Figured also by Temminck and Laug., pi. col. 6, f. 1, old male in 

 breeding plumage. E,oux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 217, female under the 

 name of Passerinette; Gould, B. of E. 



