HOLBOI.l’s KE])P0I:K. 
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blackish marks; rump, front of neck, and chest, rose- 
red; rest of the under parts white; ear coverts and 
tliroat black; primaries and tail feathers brown, edged 
with pure white ; beak yellow below and brown above ; 
feet and iris brown. The female is like the male, but 
without red on the neck or chest; the lower part of 
the body white, with brovni streaks on the sides. 
Male and female in winter have the ground eolour 
of the plumage white, tinted with brown; rump pure 
white, and the black of the ear coverts and throat 
dull. The young before the first moult are unknown. 
— (Degland.) 
My figure is taken from the male in Dubois’ plate, 
which I have selected as being a good drawing of the 
specimen referred to in De Selys’ collection. 
It has also been figured by Gould, Birds of Europe, 
193 ? 
The following members of the genus Fringilla require 
a word or two of notice: — 
Fringilla incerta, Bisso, Chlorospiza incerta, Bonaparte, 
is only the young of Pgrrhtda erythrina. 
Fringilla irevirostris is not considered by Mr. Gould 
to belong to the European fauna, all the specimens 
which have fallen under his notice having been captured 
in Asia. 
