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T. This is the darkest of the four, or, at least, it is the most coarsely 

 marked ; the mottUngs very large and coarse, especially on the head ; facial 

 disk white, with the usual rufous patch before the eye ; feathers of the ruff 

 whitish on the throat, subterminally washed with orange and tipped with 

 (lark brown, the upper feathers rich orange ; lower breast white, the chest 

 and sides of body washed with orange-buff and triangularly spotted with 

 dark brown, these spots being larger on the abdomen ; bars on primaries 

 five, on idiW four. Total length 13 inches, wing 11'7, tail 5'3, tarsus 27. 



U. Is a very light grey bird above ; below white, spotted with blackish, 

 the spots larger on the sides of the body and under wing-coverts, and 

 disappearing on the under tail-coverts and lower abdomen ; bars on primaries 

 five, on tail five, all very distinct ; the tips of the tail-feathers very profusely 

 mottled with grey. Total length \\b inches, wing 12'0, tail 4"9, tarsus 2*5. 



V. Similar to the foregoing ; bands on primaries /o«/r, very faintly indi- 

 cated, on tail /owr, the last one indistinct. Total length 12 inches, wing 11"8, 

 tail 5"0, tarsus 2-5. 



W. This is the palest of all four specimens, and appears more orange 

 than any of them ; below pure white, with a few greyish-brown dots on the 

 sides of the body and under wing-coverts ; bands on primaries four, on tail 

 four, the last one dissolving ; ruff very pale creamy white, inclining to orange 

 only above the eye, the gular plumes only slightly tipped with black. Total 

 length ll"5 inches, wing 11"8, tail 5"0, tarsus 2"8. 



Compared with English birds, these Tangier specimens ai"e undoubtedly 

 more thickly mottled above and have much longer tarsi and toes. 



Algeria. Mr. J. H. Gurney (Ibis, 1871, p. 72) says he shot a specimen 

 near Algiers, but saw no others. It is, however, common in the country, 

 according to Loche (Expl. Sci. d' Alger. Ois. p. 91), and Dr. Taczanowski 

 found it everywhere in Province Constantine (J. f. 0. 1870, p. 39). 



Madeira. Breeds (Venion Harcourt, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 142). 



