38. passer. 299 



Banye. The greater part of the Old World excepting the Moluccan 

 subregion and the Australian Region. Absent in the New World, 

 but has been introduced in many places. 



Key to the Sjpecies. 



With the throat black. 



a. Back streaked or mottled with black ; 

 crown uniform. 

 a". Lesser wing-coverts uniform brown ; 

 head chocolate ; ear-coverts ashy 

 whitish, with a black patch on the , „„, 



lower part memtanus, p. 301. 



*". Lesser wing-coverts uniform chestnut. ' saturatU8 i P- ,jU7 - 

 a"'. With the crown ashy or dark grey. 

 a 4 . Lower back and rump uniform 

 ashy brown, with no chestnut. 

 a 5 . Sides of neck and a broad super- 

 ciliary streak deep chestnut ; 

 feathers below the eye black ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of face 



ashy or white domesticus J, p. 309. 



b 5 . Sides of neck and eyebrow tawny 

 rufous ; feathers below the eye 

 and upper part of ear-coverts 

 black ; remainder of ear-coverts 

 white. 

 a e . Larger: wing 3-05 inches; no 



yellow on sides of neck .... insular is <$ , p. 321. 

 b e . Smaller : wirg 2-3 inches ; a 

 yellow patch on the sides of 

 the neck. 

 a 7 . No yellow on abdomen. . . . moabiticus J, p. 321. 



V. Abdomen yellowish yatii (J, p. 322. 



& 4 . With chestnut on the lower back 



and rump. 



c 5 . Upper tail-coverts ashy, with 



dusky centres. 



c 6 . Crown blackish, contrasting 



with the grey hind neck ; sides 



of crown light tawny jayoensis J, p. 323. 



d 5 . Crown light grey, uniform 

 with the hind neck ; sides of 



crown deep chestnut 2 n J ri ' no '>otus J, p. 316. 



d 5 . Upper tail-coverts chestnut, ex- 

 ternally duskv brown: head , ... . „,-,. 

 ashv grey like the hind neck «***««•, P- f£ 

 V". Crown chestnut. I rufiemctus, p. 32o. 



c*. Flanks uniform. 



e'\ Rump uniform chestnut ; under 

 surface sulphur-yellow ; ear- 

 coverts yellow cinnamomeus J, p. 326. 



p. Rump greenish olive-grey: under 

 surface pale yellowish ; ear- 

 coverts yellow. castanopterus J , p. 328. 



