322 FKINGII/LID-S. 



fore neck ; chest and remainder of under surface ashy, -whiter on the 

 abdomen ; the sides of the body and flanks more isabelline brown ; 

 thighs black ; under tail-coverts isabelline, with chestnut bases to 

 the feathers ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale isabelline ; 

 quills below dusky, ashy whitish on the inner web. Total length 

 4-8 inches, culmen 035, wing 2*4, tail 1*7, tarsus 0-6. {Mus. H. B. 

 Tristram.') 



Adult female. General colour pale ashy brown, tbe feathers of 

 the mantle and upper back mesially streaked with blackish brown 

 and edged with sandy buff ; rump and upper tail-coverts uniform 

 ashy brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the hind neck : median series 

 black, broadly tipped with tawny buff and margined with sandy buff ; 

 greater coverts blackish, edged with ashy brown and sandy buff : 

 bastard-wing, primary- coverts, quills, and tail-feathers dark brown, 

 edged with ashy brown ; the secondaries with sandy brown ; crown 

 of head and hind neck as well as the sides of the neck uniform 

 ashy brown, the lores and a tolerably broad eyebrow whitish, 

 deepening into isabelline above the ear-coverts ; feathers below the 

 eye whitish ; ear-coverts ashy ; on the sides of the neck a patch of 

 pale yellow ; throat dull ashy white, as also the breast and abdomen ; 

 breast, sides of body, flanks, and under tail-coverts light brown ; 

 under tail-coverts deep isabelline ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 isabelline ; quills dusky below, ashy isabelline along the inner web. 

 Total length 4*5 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2-3, tail 1*5, tarsus 06. 



Hah. Palestine. 



a. 2 a d- sk Ain Terabeh, Dead Sea. Canon Tristram [P.]. 



9. Passer yatii*. 



Adult nude in ivinter plumage. General colour above light 

 chestnut, obscured by ashy yellow, the feathers of the upper back 

 centred with black ; lower back and rump isabelline, washed with 

 yellow ; lesser wing-coverts black ; median coverts black, broadly 

 tipped with creamy white ; the inner median and all the greater 

 coverts bright chestnut, tipped with creamy white ; bastard-wing 

 black ; primary-coverts blackish, edged with ashy ; quills blackish, 

 edged with whity brown on the primaries, broader and more isabelline 

 near the base of the outer primaries, the secondaries margined with 

 rufous isabelline, with a conspicuous broad black centre to the 

 innermost secondaries ; upper tail-coverts ashy isabelline, with dusky 

 centres ; tail-feathers blackish brown, rather broadly edged with 

 clear isabelline ; crown of head and hind neck ashy isabelline, con- 

 cealing grey bases to the feathers, which are probably ashy grey in 

 summer ; lores black, surmounted by a narrow line of whitish, 

 joining a distinct eyebrow of pale tawny rufous or light cinnamon, 

 which extends to the sides of the neck ; feathers below the eye 

 white ; ear-coverts dark ashy grey ; cheeks white, continued into a 

 broad yellow streak on each side of the throat, which is black, 



* Named, by Dr. Aitchison's desire, after Captain Yate, a member of the 

 Afghan Boundary Commission. 



