330 FRINGILLrD-S. 



Adult male. The whole upper plumage from the nostrils to the 

 rump deep chestnut ; upper tail-coverts greyish brown, with dark 

 shaft-stripes ; the feathers of the back with the inner webs black at 

 the tip ; lores, feathers round the eye, and over the ear-coverts 

 brown; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of the neck pure white; a 

 broad black streak from the chin, over the throat to the upper breast, 

 where it becomes wider ; lower plumage sooty brown ; lesser wing- 

 coverts chestnut ; median coverts black, broadly tipped with pure 

 white ; greater coverts brown, edged with pale rufous and tipped 

 with whitish ; primaries and secondaries dark brown, narrowly 

 edged with pale rufescent, the third to the seventh primaries with 

 a broader edge of the same at the base of the outer webs ; tertiaries 

 blackish, edged with chestnut; tail brown, edged paler. (Oates.) 



Female. Head and nape brown, tinged with rufescent, the feathers 

 of the forehead with darker centres ; back rufescent brown, the 

 terminal portion of tho inner webs black, and the outer webs paler 

 than the inner ones ; rump pale chestnut ; upper tail-coverts greyish 

 brown ; tail brown ; a distinct supercilium pale rufescent ; lores and 

 a short streak behind the eye dark brown ; cheeks and ear-coverts 

 grey ; a large patch below the ear-coverts fulvous-yellow ; chin and 

 throat dark brown ; lower plumage greyish brown, fulvescent or 

 yellowish on the abdomen ; under tail-coverts brown, edged with 

 yellowish ; lesser wing-coverts rufescent ; median coverts dark 

 brown, broadly tipped with pure white ; greater coverts dark brown, 

 narrowly edged with whitish ; quills dark brown, narrowly edged 

 with pale rufescent, the third to the seventh primaries with a broader 

 edge of the same near tho base of the outer webs ; tertiaries and 

 inner coverts dark brown, edged more broadly with rufous. (Oates.) 



Length 4-5 inches, tail 1*7, wing 2*7, tarsus 6-5, bill from gape 

 0-55. 



The female is of about the same size. 



Hah. Tonghoo and Karen-nee, Burmah. 



17. Passer flaveolus. 



Passer flaveolus, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 946 (1844) ; id. Cat. 

 B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 120 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 508 (1850) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 86, no. 7267 (1870) ; Blanf. t. c. p. 469 ; Hume, 

 Xests $ Eggs Ind. B. p. 460 (1873) ; id. Str. F. 1874, p. 481 ; 

 id. $ Oates, Str. F. 1875, p. 156 ; Blyth $ Walden, B. Barm. 

 p. 94 (1875) ; Anderson, Zool. Exped. Yun-nan, p. 682 (1878) ; 

 Hume § Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 406 ; Tiraud, Bull. Com. Agric. 

 Cochinchine, i. p. 133 (1879) ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 107 ; Oates, 

 Str. F. 1882, p. 233 ; id. B. Brit. Burnt, i. p. 349 (1883). 



Passer jugiferus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 508 (1850, ex Temm. MSS.) ; Blyth, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 172; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 86, no. 7271 (1870). 



Adult nude. General colour above uniform cinnamon-rufous ; 

 the lower back and rump olive-greenish ; scapulars and lesser wing- 

 coverts cinnamon like the back : median coverts pale sulphur- 

 yellow, forming a wing-band ; greater series blackish, externally 



