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E Mus. Cecil Smith, 

 a. Taunton, Somersetshire (C. S.). b. River Dart, South Devon. 



P.S. — There is still something to be found out about the young of this species; and we 

 should be glad to receive further notes on the subject. Mr. Gould figures the young birds in 

 his ' Birds of Great Britain,' the male with a crimson forehead and the female without. 

 Mr. Meves, however, sends us a female with a decided blush of crimson on the fore part of the 

 head. Another female sent us by the same gentleman, and killed in Wermland in December 

 1871, has lost nearly all trace of the crescentic frontal patch, which is blackish, with white bases 

 to the feathers. Mr. Cecil Smith has also very kindly lent us a specimen from his collection, 

 which is apparently a very old female, and has the slightest traces of crimson on the hinder 

 margin of the frontal patch. We think it best to note these changes, although at present we 

 can offer no explanation of them. 



