340 FRINGILIIDA 



dusky blackish, fringed with ashy white ; quills brown, darker 

 brown towards the ends and on the inner secondaries ; primaries 

 edged with white, the secondaries isabelline whitish towards the 

 ends ; upper tail-coverts creamy white ; tail-feathers brown, darker 

 towards tho ends, broadly edged with white on both webs ; crown 

 of head a little greyer than the back ; lores and feathers in front of 

 the eye blackish ; ear-coverts and cheeks white, with a dusky line 

 along the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; throat black, extending to 

 the fore neck ; remainder of under surface of body white, with a 

 slight tinge of isabelline on the sides of body and flanks ; thighs, 

 under tail-covorts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries white ; quills 

 below ashy brown, pale ashy isabelline along the inner edge : " bill 

 white at base, clear brownish at the point and on the sides ; feet 

 yellowish ; iris black " (Loehe). Total length 5-3 inches, culmen 

 0-45, wing 3-05, tail 2% tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Uniform sandy brown, the head like the back, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts paler ; ear-coverts and sides of face 

 sandy brown ; cheeks and under surface of body white, tinged with 

 sandy buff on the breast, sides of body, and flanks : " feet- flesh- 

 colour " (Loche). Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3* 15, 

 tail 245, tarsus 0*8. 



Hob. Desert countries to the south of Algeria, ranging to Nubia, 

 Kordofan, and Senaar. 



a. S ad. sk. Algeria. Purchased. 



b, c. S $ ad. sk. Fezzan, Tunis. Gould Coll. 



25. Passer luteus. 



Fringilla lutea, Licht. Vers. Doubl. p. 24 (1823) ; Temm. PL Col. 



iii. pi. 365 (1825) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 371 (1849) ; id. Hand-l. 



B.W. p. 83, no. 7215(1870). 

 Pyrgita lutea, Brehm, Vbg. Deutschl, p. 277, note (1831) ; Licht. 



Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 47 (1S54). 

 Serinus luteus, Rupp. Neue Wirh. p. 101 (1835-40) ; id. Si/st. Uebers. 



p. 77 (1845). 

 Auripasser lutea, Bp. Consp. i. p. 519 (1850) ; Antin. Cat. desert: 



Ucc. p. 75 (1864) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 69 (1871). 

 Chrysospiza lutea, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 157 (1850) ; Heugl. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 637 (1870). 

 Fringilla (Dryospiza) lutea, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 41 (1856). 

 Carduelis lutea, Heugl. J.f. O. 1867, p. 299 {ex Pr. Wilrt. MSS.). 



Adult male. General colour above chestnut, the lower back chest- 

 nut, shading off into sulphur-yellow on the rump ; lesser wing- 

 coverts ashy yellow : median and greater coverts and bastard-wing 

 black, witb a terminal spot of yellowish white, tinged with chestnut 

 on the greater coverts, the innermost being externally chestnut ; 

 primary-coverts dusky blackish : quills blackish, edged with yel- 

 lowish white, the secondaries more broadly with chestnut ; upper 

 tail-coverts ashy brown, tinged with yellow ; tail-feathers brown, 

 edged with paler brown : crown of head, occiput, nape, and hind 



