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aberrant from the character of the rest of the family, is analogous to the exceptional egg of the 
North-American Melospiza lincolni, which lays a pure white egg, while all its congeners have 
eggs in the familiar Sparrow style. But not only does the discovery of its nidification mark the 
distinct character of this desert-bird; its general form, and every thing except its coloration, 
seems to me to separate it very decidedly from the genus Petronia.” 
The specimen figured, on the same Plate with Petronia stulta, is the adult male from Persia 
above described. 
In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens :— 
E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 
a, 6. Dehgirda, near Shiraz, S. Persia, June 29th, 1872 (W.T. Blanford). 6, 2. Shiraz (Major St. John). 
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