334 FKINGILLID-S. 



cheeks, and ear-coverts dusky brown, as also the throat and fore 

 neck ; breast and abdomen, thighs and under tail-coverts creamy 

 buff ; a streak of creamy buff along the sides of the hinder crown, 

 and a patch of creamy buff behind the cheeks, these light markings 

 not united as in the male, but separated from each other by the ashy- 

 brown sides of the neck. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0'5, 

 wing 2*9, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-8. 



The specimens from Damara-Land are rather smaller than those 

 from the Cape, but do not differ in colour. 



The young birds greatly resemble the old female, but have the 

 throat whiter ; the back is cinnamon-brown, a little clearer on the 

 lower back and rump ; the cheeks are ashy whitish, and there is no 

 sign of the pale mark behind the cheeks : the eyebrow also is very 

 indistinct : the head and neck are dull ashy, the former slightly 

 mottled with dusky tips to the feathers. 



Bab. South Africa, eastwards to the Transvaal, and westwards to 

 Benguela. 



a, b. <$ 2 ad. st. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



c. $ ad. st. South Africa. Purchased. 



d. S ad.; e. Pull. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 /. cJ ad. sk. South Africa. Gould Coll. 



g, k. $ $ ad.sk. South Africa (E. L.Layard). Sharpe Coll. 

 i. $ ad. sk. Cape Town, June 29 (C. J Sharpe Coll. 



Andersson). 

 k. $ iuv. sk. Transvaal (T. Ay res). Sharpe Coll. 



/. sS ad. sk. Potchefstrooni, Transvaal, Forbe3 Coll- 



Nov. 6 (T. Ay res), 

 m. <$ ad.sk. Darnara-Land, July 5 (('./. Sharpe Coll. 



Andersson). 

 n. 5 ad.; o. $ Otjimbinque, Damara-Land, Sharpe Coll. 



juv.sk. Jan. 8 (C J. Andersson). 



p. $ ad. sk. Otjimbinque, Aug. 23 {C.J. Sharpe Coll. 



Andersson). 



20. Passer swainsoni. 



riza capensis, var., Salt, Trav. Abyss., App. p. xlviii (1814). 

 a swainsoni, Hiipp. Neue Wirb. p. 94, Tat. S3, fig. 2 (1835-40). 



Emberi 



Pyrgita 



Passer swainsoni, JRii]>p. Syst. Uebers. p. 78 (1845) ; Ueiu/l. J.f. O. 

 18(52, p. 30; Anfin. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 74 (1864) ; Scl. P.Z. S. 

 1864, p. 110 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 87, no. 7281 (1870) ; Heuyl. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 634, App. p. cxli (1870-71); Blanf. 

 Geol. Sf Zool. Abyss, p. 411 (1870); Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 269 

 (1870); id. 8f Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 450 (1870, pt.) ; Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1870, p. 143; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 69 (1871) ; Hartl. Ab- 

 handl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. '105 (1881); Shelley, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 589; Salrin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 211 (1882); Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Civic. Genov. (2) i. p. 176 (1884). 



Passer simplex {nee Siv.), Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 373 (1849) ; Brehm, 

 Reis. Habesch, p. 342 (1863). 



Pyi'gitopsis swainsoni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 510 (1850) ; Reichenb. Sinr/v. 

 p. 88, pi. xlv. fig. 326 (1861) ; Antin. $ Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, 

 p. 114 (1873). 



