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shown in the drawing nor mentioned in the description. 

 The dimensions also appear too small. 



215. P. (Gymnorit) canicapillus (?), Blyth. 



Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 46. 



P. supra brwnneus, ccvpite cinereo, superciliis latis cmnamoneispostice 

 in lateribus cervicis diffusis : rectficibus rmnigibusquefuliginosis, 

 pallido-marginatis ; genis, laUrihus colli et pectore sordide 

 eanis, mento, gula ahdomineque 'medio albescentibus macula 

 gulariflavo hand conspicuo : i/ridAhus olivaceis, pedibus rvhdlo- 

 corneis, mandibuld fused maxilld paUde corned. 



1. Foemina . . 



2. „ 



3. Mas? . . 



I found this bird solitary or in small flocks both in 

 the woods and around villages in the Lebka vaUey and 

 its neighbourhood, at 3,000 to 4,000 feet above the sea. 

 It was especially abundant at the village of Eairo in 

 Habab. 



It is distinguished from Xanthodina dentata, Sunde- 

 vall (" Ofvers. k. Vetensk. Acad." Stock. 1850, p. 127), 

 and Petronia albigularis, Brehm (" Naumannia," 1856, 

 p. 377), which Dr. Firisch considers to be the young of 

 X. dentata, by having the eyebrow ciunamon instead of 

 pale rufous, by the head being more grey, and by the 

 back being browner and more uniform in coloration. 

 Mr. Blyth considers that it is his canicapillus, and it 

 only differs from the description in being a little smaller 

 than Passer (Gj/mnoris) Jlavicollis, Frankl., while Blyth's 

 type was of the same size. The specimen in the Liver- 

 pool Museum described by Blyth was probably from 

 South Africa. 



