

38. passes. 329 



15. Passer rutilans. 



Passer rutilans, Tenon. PI. Col. iii. pi. 488. fig. 2 (1835) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. ii. p. 373 (1849); Bp. Consp. i. p. 508 (1850); Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 86, no. 7264 (1870); Swinh. P.Z.S. 1871, p. 386: id. 



Ibis, 1877, p. 145 ; David $ Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 341 (187/ ); Blakist. 



fy Fryer, B. Japan, p. 172 (1882) ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, 



p. 17 (1884). 

 Passer russatus, Temm. $• 8chl Faun. Japan., Aves, p. 90, pi. 50 



(1850); Swinh. Ibis, 1801, p. 45; Blakist. Ibis, 181 12, p. 328; 



Swinh. Una, 1863, p. 378, 1866, p. 295; David, X. Arch. Mas. vii. 



Bull. p. 10 (1871). 



Adult male. General colour above deep chestnut, the upper back 

 and scapulars streaked with black centres to the feathers, -which 

 are also narrowly edged with creamy buff : lesser wing-coverts 

 chestnut like the back ; median coverts black, broadly tipped with 

 white : greater coverts black, edged with reddish brown, whiter 

 towards the ends ; bastard- wing and primary-coverts blackish, edged 

 with reddish brown ; quills blackish brown, edged with creamy 

 white, which is not continuous on the primaries, but is broader 

 near the base and near the ends ; the inner secondaries margined 

 with rufous ; upper tail-coverts ashy brown ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown, edged with ashy brown ; crown of head uniform chestnut ; 

 lores and feathers round eye, as well as a narrow eyelid, ashy 

 whitish ; ear-coverts and cheeks, as well as the sides of the throat, 

 purer white, the centre of the throat blackish ; remainder of under 

 surface pale ashy brown, whiter on the abdomen ; thighs ashy 

 brown ; under tail-coverts whitish, with ashy-brown centres ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries dull white, the latter tinged with rufous ; 

 quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge : " bill black in 

 summer, brown in winter ; feet reddish grey ; iris chestnut-brown " 

 {A. David). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2*75, tail 1*7, 

 tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Very similar to the male, and resembling the hen 

 of F. cinnamomeus, but without the yellow tinge on the under 

 surface, which is browner ; the head and neck are also browner, 

 and the superciliary streak is deep isabelline. Total length 5 

 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2'8, tail 1-75, tarsus 0'65. 



Hab. Japan, North China, and Formosa. 



a, b. 3 2 a d- sk. Japan. Gould Coll. 



c. (S ad. sk. Ningpo, May 1872. Consul Swinhoe [C.]. 



d. <S ad. sk. Ningpo, March 13, F. W. Styan, Esq. rp.]. 



1884. 



e. cS ad. sk. Formosa. Consul Swinhoe [C.]. 



16. Passer assimilis. 



Passer assimilis, Walden, Ann. 8f Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) v. p. 218 

 (1870) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 157 ; Bli/th, B. Burm. p. 94 (1875) ; 

 Hume $ Davison, Sir. F. 1878, p. 407; Hume, Str. F. 1879, 

 p. 107 ; Wardlaw Bamsay, Works Tweedd., App. pp. 93, 668 

 (1881) ; Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 350 (1883). 



