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blackish marks; rump, front of neck, and chest, rose- 

 red; rest of the under parts white; ear coverts and 

 throat 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 brown streaks on the sides. 



Male and female in winter have the ground colour 

 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 Pyrrhula erythrina. 



Fringilla brevirostris 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. 



