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29. The British Jay. 



Summer. — There is a moult of the body-plumage (perhaps only partial) 

 in Jan. and Feb. 



Soft parts. — Iris of adult and juvenile bluish -white with very narrow 

 inner ring of brown. (H.F.W.) 



30. The Irish Jay. 



Distribution. — Recorded co. Longford 1918. 



36. The Starling. 



Distribution. — Statement " has long been common Shetlands " must, 

 be referred to the Shetland Starling for which see Vol. I, p. *vi. 



46. The Hawfinch. 



Distribution. — Bred Dumfries-shire 1919 and 1922, and seen at various 

 dates Aberdeen 1920. 



51. The Continental Goldfinch. 



One in Brit. Mus. (<£ Weston-super-Mare, Ap. 9, 1913, Whish coll.) is 

 more like this form than the British but it is more likely to be an aberrant 

 British bird than a genuine migrant. (H.F.W.) 



52. The British Goldfinch. 



Nestling. — Down darkish grey, medium length, scanty on ventral 

 and crural tracts ; distribution, inner and outer supra-orbital, occipital, 

 spinal, humeral, ulnar, femoral, crural and ventral. Tongue and floor 

 of mouth crimson, posterior angles of tongue paler but not forming 

 definite spots, roof of mouth dark lilac, externally flanges cream- 

 colour. (N.F.T.) 



56. The Siskin. 



Distribution. — O. Hebrides, one Flannans, one Lewis, Oct. 1915. 



56. The Twite. 



Loxia Flavirostris parullelicolor Kleinschmidt, Berajah, p. 1 (1921 — 

 England) has been described as being browner and darker than the 

 typical form. Compared with a small series of Swedish specimens 

 British breeding birds are sometimes darker buff on the throat and 

 buffer and less whitish on the belly but the difference is very slight 

 and not sufficiently constant to make separation advisable. (H.F.W.),. 



58. Distribution. — Recorded breeding Merioneth 1905. (G. Bolam, Wild 

 Life in Wales, p- 161.) 



59. The Mealy Redpoll. 



Synonym : Linaria canescens Gould, B. Europe, in, pi. 193 (1834 — - 

 winter visitor to England). 



61. The Greenland Redpoll. 



Distribution. — Party Nov. and Dec. 1913, Possil Marsh (Clyde). 



66. The Citril Finch. 



Authority (Pall.) instead of (L.), the first description being Fringilla 

 Citrinella Pallas, Vroeg's Cat. Verzam. Vogelen, etc., Adumbratiuncula,. 

 p. 3 (1764— Holland, " rara avis "). 



71. The Linnet 



Distribution. — O. Hebrides, stated to have bred Lewis. 



71. The Serin 



A male from Rottingdean (Sussex), Dec. 6, 1918, in Tring Mus., was; 

 thought by Hartert to be an example of S. c. germanicus (Vog. p. 

 Fauna, in, p. 2055), but he now agrees that it matches examples of 

 S. c. serinus in winter, when owing to greyish fringes to feathers the? 

 yellow is duller. (H.F.W.) 



