328 



i'j k. $ 2 ad. sk. 



X', n'. <S $ ad. sk. 



v'. 2 ad. sk. 



|'. J ad. sk. 

 o'. cJ ad. sk. 



ir'. S ad. sk. 



p'. cJ ad. sk. 



o-', t'. c? ad. sk. ; 



t/. § ad. sk. 

 <f>', x- d 2 ad. sk. 



^', a', c? 2 ad -; 



a. 2 j uv - s ^- 

 i, c. iVd. sk. 

 d, e. cJ 2 a< i- st. 

 /. ($ ad. st. 



FKINGILLIB^:. 



Bkootan Dooars, Jan. 1877 (L. 

 Mandelli). 



Bhootan Dooars, Feb. 1873-77 

 (L. Mandelli). 



Bhootan Dooars, Dec. 1876 

 (L. Mandelli). 



Shillong (J. Cockbum). 



Shillong, Aug. 1877 (J. Cock- 

 bttrri) . 



Shi Hung, Oct. 10, 1877 (J. Cock- 

 burn). 



Shillong, Nov. 1877 (J. Cock- 

 burn). 



Airnole, Manipur, April 1881 

 (A. O. H.\. 



Machi, Manipur, May 2, 1881 

 {A. O.H.). 



Momien, Yun-nan, June. 



Himalayas. 



India. 



India. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Dr. Anderson [C.]. 



Gould Coll. 



Purchased. 



J. 11. Reeves, Esq. 



[P.]. 



14. Passer castanopterus. 



Passer castanopterus, Bli/th, J. A. S. Beng. xxiv. p. 302 (1855) ; 

 Speke, Ibis, i860, p. 246 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 86, no. 7275 

 (1870); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pt. 2, p. 633(1870); Finsch $ 

 Hartl. Vbg. Ostafr. p. 442 (1870); Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. 

 Bidl. p. 141 (1879). 



Adult male. Goneral colour above ashy brown with an olive tingo, 

 the mantle and upper back streaked with black centres to the fea- 

 thers, which are margined with whity brown ; lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts uniform ashy olive ; scapulars and entire 

 wing-coverts uniform bay or light chestnut ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts brown, darker towards the ends and fringed with 

 rufous ; quills brown, edged with lighter brown, more rufous on the 

 inner secondaries, the outer primaries whity brown near the base 

 and near the ends of the outer webs, the dark brown of the quills 

 reaching to the edge in the middle of the feather ; tail-feathers dark 

 brown, edged with light brown ; crown of head and nape uniform 

 light chestnut, reaching to the sides of the neck, which are other- 

 wise ashy olive ; lores, feathers below the eye, and a streak along 

 the upper ear-coverts pale sulphur-yellow, as well as the cheeks ; 

 fore part of cheeks, throat, and fore neck black ; remainder of under 

 surface bright yellow, ashy olive on the breast and sides of the body ; 

 under tail-coverts yellowish white, with light brownish bases ; asil- 

 laries and under wing-coverts yellowish white ; quills below dusky, 

 ashy along the inner web. Total length 5 - 2 inches, culmen 0-3, 

 wing 2*9, tail 1*9, tarsus 0'7. (Mus. Paris.) 



Hab. Somali-Land, East Africa ; ? Gaboon, in West Africa. 



