

38. passes. 321 



7. Passer insularis. 

 Passer insularis, Sclater §■ Hartl, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 1G9, pi. 16. 



Adult male. Above ashy brown, broadly streaked with black on 

 the mantle and back ; scapulars bay or ashy, edged with bay ; lesser 

 wing-coverts light bay ; median and greater wing-coverts dusky 

 brown, edged with rufous-brown ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 uniform dark brown ; wings dark brown, edged with paler brown, 

 the inner secondaries with rufous ; upper tail-coverts ashy brown ; 

 tail-feathers brown, edged with whity brown ; crown of head 

 uniform ashy grey ; a broad eyebrow of cinnamon-rufous, widening 

 out on the sides of the neck ; lores, feathers round the eye, and a 

 broad streak along the upper ear-coverts white : sides of neck ashy 

 grey ; throat black ; remainder of under surface of body ashy grey, 

 whiter in the centre of the breast and abdomen ; under tail-coverts 

 ashy brown, edged with white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 ashy, edged with whitish. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 06, 

 wing 3*05, tail 2 - 25, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Browner than the male and not so grey, wanting 

 also the rufous eyebrow and sides of neck ; lesser wing-coverts 

 reddish brown, not chestnut ; no black on the throat. Total length 

 5 - 5 inches, culmen - 6, wing 2-9, tail 2-3, tarsus # 75. 



Hah. Island of Socotra. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Socotra (I. B. Balfour). Brit. Association [P.l. 



b, c. (J ad. ; d. 2 Socotra (7. B. Balfour). Brit. Association [P.], 

 ad. sk. (Types of species.) 



8. Passer rnoabiticus. 



Passer rnoabiticus, Tristr. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 169 ; id. Ibis, 1867, 

 p. 370, pi. vii. 1868, p. 333 ; id. Faun. $ Flor. Palest, p. 68, 

 pi. ix. figs. 3, 4 (1884). 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above sandy brown, 

 concealing the grey plumage underneath ; mantle and upper back 

 sandy buff, streaked with black : lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts uniform sandy brown ; lesser wing-coverts black, the lower 

 ones creamy white, forming a band ; median and greater coverts 

 chestnut, edged with creamy buff, broader on the latter series, which 

 have black bases ; bastard-wing blackish ; primary-coverts and quills 

 blackish, edged with sandy brown, whitish near the base and 

 towards the ends of the primaries, with an intermediate blackish 

 patch ; inner secondaries mesially black ; upper tail- coverts more 

 sandy buff than the rump ; tail-feathers blackish, with sandy-brown 

 edges ; crown of head and hind neck entirely obscured by sandy- 

 brown edges to the feathers ; lores dusky ; a distinct dull white 

 eyebrow, continued in a broad streak of pale tawny above the ear- 

 coverts ; behind the eye a blackish spot ; ear-coverts ashy grey, like 

 the sides of the neck ; feathers below the eye and cheeks white, the 

 latter forming a broad streak, followed by a patch of sulphur-yellow 

 on the sides of the lower throat ; the latter black, extending to the 



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