38. passee. 323 



obscured with ashy margins ; sides of neck ashy isabelline like the 

 hind neck ; fore neck black like the throat ; chest and remainder of 

 under surface of body pale yellow, obscured with ashy, the sides of 

 body and flanks ashy brown, washed with yellow ; thighs black, 

 with whitish edgings ; under tail-coverts deep isabelline ; under wing- 

 coverts white, the edge of the wing mottled with black bases to the 

 feathers ; asillaries yellow ; quills below dusky, ashy whitish along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 4*8 inches, eulmen 0*4, 

 wing 2-5, tail 1*8, tarsus 0*65. 

 Bab. Western Afghanistan. 



a. rf ad. sk. Dedadi. Dr. Aitchison [0.]. 



10. Passer jagoensis'. 



I'vrgita jagoensis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 77. 



I \isser jagoensis, Gould, Voy. ' Beaylv,' Birds, p. !)5, pi. xxxi. (1841) ; 



Up. C&nxp. i. p. 510 (1850); Dohrn, J. f. O. 1871, p. 6; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. ii. p. 80, no. 7208 (1870). 

 Passer ervthrophrys, Bp. Consp. i. p. 510 (1850, ex Temm. MSS.) ; 



Ilartl. Om. W.-Afr. p. 150 (1857); Keulem. N.T. Dierk. 8vo, iii. 



p. 370 (1800) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 80, no. 7274 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above cinnamon-rufous or chestnut, 

 the feathers of the mantle and upper back edged with ashy brown 

 and streaked with black : lower back and rump uniform cinnamon- 

 rufous ; lesser wing-coverts and scapulars uniform cinnamon-rufous ; 

 median coverts white with black bases, forming a wing-bar; 

 greater coverts dark brown, edged externally with rufous, with the 

 tips fulvescent ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish brown, 

 fringed with ashy rufous; quills dark brown, edged with fulvous 

 browu, the primaries with paler margins, especially at the base of 

 these quills, where a small speculum is formed, and about halfway 

 up the quills, where the margins are conspicuously broader and 

 lighter ; upper tail-coverts ashy brown ; tail-feathers brown, edged 

 with ashy brown ; crown of head dark ashy ; hind neck ashy brown ; 

 lores and feathers round the eye black, surmounted by a narrow 

 white line, which is followed by a broad streak of orange-rufous, 

 which runs from above the eye to the sides of the neck ; cheeks and 

 ear-coverts dull white, with a dusky blackish streak along the upper 

 edge of the latter ; throat black ; remainder of under surface of 

 body from the fore neck downwards pale ashy, darker on the sides 

 of the body and flanks ; centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail- 

 coverts white, the latter with light brown centres ; asillaries and 

 under wing-coverts dull white ; quills dusky brown below, ashy along 

 the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-1 inches, eulmen 0-5, 

 wing 2-6, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-7. 



* Dr. Oustalet has described a female Sparrow from the island of Branco, 

 in the Cape- Verde group, as Passer brancoensis (Ann. Sci. Nat. Zool. (6) xvi. 

 art. 5, p. 2, 1883). The characters for distinction do not seem to be strongly 

 pronounced. 



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