338 FEnrerLLiDiE. 



Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 239 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1875, p. 220 ; Prjevalski, 

 tn Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 295 (1877) ; David <y Oust. Ois. Chine, 

 p. 549 (1878). 

 Passer stoliczkse, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 516. 



Adult male. General colour above pale ashy brown ; the feathers 

 of the mantle and upper back greyish white externally, and broadly 

 streaked with black; lower back and rump ashy brown, mottled 

 with blackish centres to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts black ; 

 median coverts white, with black bases, forming a wing-bar ; greater 

 coverts blackish, externally pale ashy brown, and whitish at tip ; 

 bastard-wing blackish, fringed with ashy fulvous ; primary-coverts 

 blackish, externally edged with ashy brown ; quills light brown, 

 edged with ashy brown, whiter toward the end, and tinged with 

 sandy near the base ; the primaries with a speculum of whitish near 

 the base of the outer web of primaries, which have also a broader 

 whitish edging at about one half of the feather ; upper tail-coverts 

 pale ashy brown, with dusky centres ; tail-feathers ashy brown, 

 whiter on the outer ones ; crown of head black, narrowing on the 

 nape and widening again on the hind neck ; eyebrows, lores, feathers 

 round eye, and a streak along the upper edge of ear-coverts black, 

 the latter as well as the cheeks greyish white ; above the lores a 

 streak of white, continued into a broad band of pale cinnamon, 

 starting above the eye and widening out towards the sides of neck ; 

 the latter whitish ; throat black, as well as a spot at the base of the 

 cheeks ; fore neck and rest of under surface of body ashy whitish, 

 purer white on the centre of abdomen and under tail-coverts ; sides 

 of body, flanks, and thighs clearer ashy brown : under tail-coverts 

 white, with pale brown centres to the feathers ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white ; quills below pale ashy brown, whitish along 

 the inner web. Total length 6 inches, culmen Oo. wing 3*05, 

 tail 2*5, tarsus 0"8. 



Winter plumage. More sandy brown than in summer, the shaft- 

 streaks on the mantle and back much narrower : black of crown 

 and nape obscured with ashy margins to the feathers : white of face 

 and underparts slightly washed with ashy brown. 



Adult female. General colour above very pale sandy brown, with 

 a slight rufous tinge on the mantle, the feathers of which have 

 blackish centres ; lesser wing-coverts light reddish brown, with dusky 

 bases ; median coverts creamy white, blackish at the base ; greater 

 coverts blackish, externally pale brown, with a creamy-white margin 

 and tip ; bastard-wing brown, edged and tipped with white ; 

 primary-coverts and quills brown, edged with pale sandy brown, 

 whitish at the tips of all ; the primaries broadly margined near the 

 base and towards the ends, more narrowly in the middle ; upper 

 tail-coverts pale sandy brown, washed with ashy ; tail-feathers light 

 brown, edged with pale sandy brown, faintly tinged with rufous ; 

 crown of head uniform sandy brown, washed with ashy ; lores 

 ashy ; a tolerably broad eyebrow of pale sandy rufous, rather darker 

 posteriorly ; eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts pale ashy brown ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body isabelline, with the centre of the throat 



