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men in the Lentclitenbergstein collection. The following 

 is also Count Miihle's description: — "The old male in 

 the spring has a very pretty and well-pencilled plumage. 

 The whole surface of the head to the nape of the neck 

 is of a brilliant satin white; the mantle, wings, flanks, 

 cheeks, throat, and upper part of the chest, deep vel- 

 vet black; the whole under part of the body, under 

 wing coverts, rump, and tail, a lively fox red; on the 

 deep black wings, and where the feathers are almost 

 imperceptibly edged with a greyish tint, there is a 

 great white mirror-like spot extending from the third 

 to the tenth feathers. The secondaries have in the 

 middle of the inner colours a white, though not an 

 equally-conspicuous spot. The second primary is like 

 the seventh, the third like the fifth. Beak black, with 

 stiff black hairs round the angle of the mouth; throat 

 yellow; iris brown; the tolerably long feet are black. 

 After the autumn mou.lt the plumage is much plainer. 



The female has the colours of the under wing 

 coverts and tail like the male, but paler; the whole 

 body is brownish ash grey; on the under part of the 

 body and about the sides lighter; under tail feathers 

 rusty. 



The unknown young birds we must suppose to be 

 similar to other "Rothlings," clear spotted and streaked. 



Figured by Heinrich Graf Von der Miihle, in his 

 "Monog. der Europ. Sylvien." 



