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remiges, and rectrices dark earth brown edged with buffy brown ; a 

 pale buffy superciliary stripe over each eye; lores, cheeks, and 

 auriculars pale buffy brown ; underparts whitish lightly w^ashed with 

 pale buff on chin and throat and still more lightly washed wnth the 

 same color on the middle of the abdomen; sides and flanks with a 

 grayish buffy wash. 



The female, unknown at the time when Keichenow compiled his 

 great work, has been described by Witherby and by van Someren. 

 Both write that the female resembles the male above but lacks the 

 chestnut color. This is not all, however ; the upper back of the male 

 has a yellowish grayish-green cast, while the female has a buffy- 

 brown tone. The immature male (second pennaceous plumage) 

 resembles the adult female. 



The postjuvenal molt seems to be incomplete, as the brownish 

 remiges and rectrices are retained, and are replaced by the deep 

 fuscous ones of maturity only in the first prenuptial molt. The wings 

 and tail molt after the body feathers; thus, the black throat gorget 

 has already lost its grayish margins in a specimen in which the new 

 remiges are not yet fully grown. 



A male taken on July 16 is in very fresh plumage; others taken, 

 June 24-July 15, are in molt. The dimensions of the adults collected 

 by the expedition are shown in table 76. 



Table 76. — Measurements of 11 specimens of Passer castanopterus fulgens 



A series of nine birds collected by Capt. Keith Caldwell at Karoli, 

 on July 21-28, are all in very worn plumage and are all much stained 

 below with reddish earth. They lack some of the yellow on the under- 

 parts, so characteristic of the Chaffa, Hor, and Indunumara birds. 



This species (typical race) appears to be not at all uncommon in the 

 coastal districts of northern Somaliland. Lort Phillips*^- found it 



"Ibis, 1898, pp. 397-398. 



