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Adult Male (Seville, May). Crown, nape, and hind neck dark ashy grey, with a brown tinge, and washed 

 with yellowish ; hack and scapulars dark brownish ash, all the feathers broadly terminated with dull 

 golden yellow ; primaries bluish ash on the outer web, and dark ashy brown on the inner web, except 

 the first quill, which has the outer web black except at the extreme tip ; shafts of the primaries black ; 

 secondaries dull white on the inner web, and dark ashy brown narrowly margined with white on the 

 outer web, excepting the rather elongated innermost secondaries, which are dull brown ; smaller and 

 median wing-coverts dark bluish ash at the base, becoming pale dove-colour towards the terminal 

 portion, which is rich chocolate-red, bordered with sulphur-yellow, and with a narrow apical border 

 of black ; some of the outer larger coverts similarly coloured ; but the inner ones are dark ash at the 

 base, then dull golden yellow, and narrowly bordered with blackish ; rump and upper tail-coverts light 

 yellowish, closely and distinctly barred with black, the two central rectrices much elongated and 

 narrowed towards the tip, the basal portion coloured like the tail-coverts, and the terminal portion 

 blackish brown ; remaining rectrices blackish ash on the inner web, barred like the coverts on the 

 outer web, and broadly terminated with white ; sides of the head dull golden yellow over the eye, and 

 on the sides of the throat rufescent-orange ; chin, upper throat, and a broad line behind the eye jet- 

 black ; lower part of the throat dull golden-yellow, below which there is a broad chestnut-red band 

 across the upper part of the breast, bordered above and below with black ; rest of the underparts and 

 ■ under wing-coverts white, except the under tail-coverts, which are blackish grey, barred with dull 

 yellowish, and broadly tipped with white, and the outer edge of the underpart of the wing is dull 

 blackish ; beak dull horn-brown ; bare space round the eye dull lead-grey ; iris dark brown ; feet dull 

 greyish brown. Total length about 14 inches, culmen - 65, wing 7'3, tail 5 - 3, tarsus 1 - 15. 



Adult Female (Seville, May). Upper parts rich yellowish, closely barred with black and ashy grey; and on 

 the back and scapulars most of the feathers have a broad subterminal ashy blue band ; quills as in the 

 male, but paler and bluer ; wing-coverts barred at the base with black on a rusty yellow ground, then 

 crossed by a broad band blue-grey, and one of clay-yellow, and narrowly tipped with black ; tail as in 

 the male ; chin and centre of the throat white, not black ; sides of the throat and neck yellow, with a 

 warm slightly reddish tinge; the pectoral band much paler than in the male, and bordered by two 

 black bands above and one below ; rest of the underparts as in the male. In size this specimen and 

 others I have are fully equal to the males. 



Obs. Judging from the series I have examined, the winter plumage does not differ from that worn in the 

 summer. 



Young Female (near Seville, 20th October) . Upper parts dull fulvous clay-coloured, barred with black, 

 except that in the interscapulary region and the larger wing-coverts and elongated inner secondaries 

 the ground-colour is much brighter, almost golden yellow ; quills as in the adult, but tipped with dull 

 fulvous and white; here and there amongst the lesser wing-coverts one of the characteristic feathers of 

 the adult plumage is pushing its way through ; central rectrices much less elongated than in the adult ; 

 chin and upper throat white ; sides of the head and neck and entire breast dull fulvescent buff, closely 

 marked or barred with black ; rest of the underparts white, except that on the centre of the abdomen 

 the feathers are tipped with black, and the under tail-coverts are as in the adult. 



Young Male. A young male obtained near Seville on the 10th of November is much more nearly in adult 

 plumage than the bird last described, the breast, wings, and tail being as in the adult male ; but the 

 back is partly in the adult plumage and to some extent the feathers are as in the young female, the 

 head and upper neck being also coloured as in that specimen ; but the feathers on the chin and upper 



