324 FEINGILLIDiE. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Brown above, with whity- 

 brown edges to the feathers of the mantle, which have blackish- 

 brown centres; the lower back and rump uniform reddish brown; 

 upper tail-coverts a little more ashy ; lesser wing-coverts and 

 scapulars reddish brown ; median coverts blackish, tipped with white, 

 forming a wing-bar; greater coverts dusky brown, edged with 

 reddish brown, ashy whitish at the ends ; quills and tail otherwise 

 as in the male; crown of head dull ashy brown, the feathers 

 streaked with dusky brown ; a broad eyebrow of creamy buff, 

 whitish above the lores ; ear-coverts pale brown, darker along the 

 upper margin ; cheeks and under surface of body dull white, ashy 

 on the breast, and rather browner on the flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-3, tail 1*8, 

 tarsus 0'7. 



Bab. Cape Verde Islands. 



a. cS ad. sk. S. Iago (C. Darwin). J. Gould, Esq. 



(Type of species.) 



b. S ad. sk. S. Iago (C. Darwin). Gould Coll. 



c. d. (S ad. et jun. sk. S. Vincent. L. Fraser [C.]. 



e, f. £ $ ad. sk. Cape Verde Islands. M. A. Bouvier [P.]. 



g, h. $ ad. sk. Cap ■ Verde Islands. Sir E. Sabine [P.]. 



11. Passer motitensis. 



Passer motitensis, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Birds, pi. 114 (1849) ; 

 Bp. Consp. i. p. 510 (1850) ; Layard, B. S. Aft: p. 204 (1807) ; 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 268 ; Layard, Ibis, 1869, p. 79 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 86, no. 7262 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat Afr. B. p. 69 

 (1871) ; Gurney in Anders. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 187 (1872) ; Sharpe, 

 in Gates' Matabele-Land, App. p. 320 (1881) ; id. ed. Bayard's B. 

 S. Afr. p. 480 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above pale cinnamon-rufous, the 

 mantle and scapulars streaked with black centres to the feathers, 

 the lower back and rump uniform ; upper tail-coverts ashy brown, 

 slightly washed with cinnamon ; lesser wing-coverts cinnamou like 

 the back ; median wing-coverts blackish, tipped with white, forming 

 a wing-bar ; greater series blackish, edged with cinnanion-buff, 

 whitish at the ends ; bastard- wing, primary-coverts, and quills 

 dusky blackish, margined with pale cinnamon-rufous, broader on 

 the secondaries ; tail-feathers dark brown, margined with paler 

 brown ; crown of head and hind neck pale pearly grey ; over the 

 lores a small white spot, continued in a broad eyebrow of pale 

 cinnamon, widening out on the sides of the neck ; lores and lower 

 margin of eyelid black, continued in a line along the upper part of 

 the ear-coverts, which are pale ashy ; the cheeks purer white, forming 

 a streak which widens out on the sides of the neck ; throat and 

 fore neck black ; chest and remainder of underparts white, slightly 

 shaded with ashy on the breast, the flanks and sides of body per- 

 ceptibly browner; under tail-coverts white; axillaries fulvous; 

 under wing-coverts white, with dusky bases ; quills dusky below, 



