38. passer. 317 



coverts ashy brown, with dusky centres, and contrasting with the 

 chestnut of the lower back and rump ; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 edged with ashy fulvous ; crown ■ of head and hind neck ashy grey, 

 rather browner on the latter ; lores and eyelid blackish, the former 

 surmounted by a whitish streak continued into a broad chestnut 

 eyebrow, which widens out on the sides of the neck ; ear-coverts 

 ashy grey ; cheeks white, forming a streak, broadening on the sides 

 of the neck ; throat black, slightly hidden by greyish margins to 

 the feathers ; remainder of under surface white ; the fore neck and 

 breast pale ashy ; flanks pale brown ; thighs white ; under tail- 

 coverts white, with ashy-brown centres ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white ; quills below dusky, the inner edge ashy whitish : 

 " bill deep dusky brown, only the base of the mandible with a faint 

 fleshy tinge ; tarsi and toes dusky fleshy brown ; iris light brown ; 

 eyelids leaden slaty " (Scrope Doig). Total length 5-3 inches, cul- 

 men - 4, wing 2-6, tail 2-15, tarsus 0"65. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in wanting the chestnut on 

 the back and being altogether browner, the upper surface being 

 brown, rather more ashy on the head, neck, and upper tail-coverts ; 

 the mantle-feathers externally fulvescent and broadly streaked with 

 black ; lesser wing-coverts brown, -with a slightly reddish tinge ; the 

 wings otherwise as in the male, but without so much rufous, the 

 edges being more ochreous buff ; tail as in male, but paler brown ; 

 lores dusky ; ear-coverts ashy, with a brown streak along the upper 

 margin, and surmounted by a broad eyebrow of isabolfine ; cheeks, 

 throat, and abdomen white, the fore neck and breast as well as the 

 sides of the breast and flanks pale ashy. Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 04, wing 2-55, tail P95, tarsus 065. 



Hub. Sind. 



a, b. $ $ a d- sk. Eastern Narra, Aug. 1880 Hume Coll. 



(Scrope Doig). 

 c. $ ad. sk. Eastern Narra, Oct. 1880 Hume Coll. 



(Scrope Doiff). 

 d-p. S ad. ; q-w. Eastern Narra, Dec. 1880 Hume Coll. 



$ ad. sk. (Scrope Doiff). 



x. 3 ad. ; y, z. $ Eastern Narra. Scrope Doig, Esq. [P.]. 



ad. sk. 



6. Passer hispaniolensis. 



Fringilla hispaniolensis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 353 (1820) ; Eoux, 



Orn. Prov. pi. 84 (1825) ; Sari, Orn. Tosc. ii. p. 106 (1829). 

 Fringilla cisalpina (nee Temm.), Audouin, Expl. somm. 8vo, p. 367 



(1825). 

 Fringilla espaniolensis, Werner, Atlas, Gramvores, pi. 41 (1827). 

 Frirjgilla salicicola, Vieill. Faune Franq. p. 417 (1828). 

 Pyrgita hispanica, etc., Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 266 (1831). 

 Pyrgita hispaniolensis, Riipp. Neue Wirb. p. 100 (1835-40) ; Goidd, 



B. Eur. iii. pi. 185. fig. 1 (1837); Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. 



p. 47 (1854). 

 Pyrgita salicaria, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. §• N. Amer. p. 30 (1838). 

 Passer salicarius, Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xl (1840) ; Miihle, 



