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Museum from the Alazan Eiver, Transcaucasia, and cannot consider this form even subspecifically 

 separable from P. colchicus, and believe that it will be found, when a larger series is available 

 for examination, that these birds are a mere variety of that species, or perhaps hybrids between 

 P. colchicus and P. persicus. The specimen in Mr. Rothschild's collection differs from typical 

 specimens of P. colchicus merely in having the breast more tinged with purplish carmine, and 

 the bars on the tail are narrower, therein resembling P. persicus more than P. colchicus. 

 The specimen of P. persicus figured and above described is in my own collection. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined, besides the series in the British 

 Museum, the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser, 

 a, <J ad. Soumbar, Transcaspia (Grmn-Grzimailo) . 



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