38. passer. 341 



neck sulphur-yellow, washed with ashy on the latter ; sides of face 

 entirely sulphur-yellow, with a slightly brighter streak over the eye ; 

 under surface of body sulphur-yellow : thighs dusky brown ; under 

 tail-coverts blackish, broadly edged with pale yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts white, washed with pale sulphur-yellow, the edge of the 

 wing dark brown edged with yellow ; axillaries pale yellow ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length -±-9 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2-55, tail 2, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown, the mantle and upper back more or less chestnut, the lower 

 back and rump uniform sandy brown ; lesser wing-coverts pale 

 tawny buff; median and greater coverts blackish, edged with tawny 

 buff, whitish at the ends, especially broad on the median series ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, edged 

 with sandy buff, more rufous on the margins of the secondaries ; 

 upper tail-coverts brown with a reddish tinge, edged with ashy 

 white ; tail-feathers brown, edged with sandy buff or isabelline : 

 crown of head and hind neck ashy brown ; lores whitish ; above the 

 ear-coverts a narrow eyebrow of pale yellow ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts light ashy washed with yellow ; cheeks and throat ashy 

 whitish, washed with pale yellow ; fore neck and remainder of 

 under surface of body isabelline with a yellow tinge ; sides of body 

 and flanks pale sandy brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts isabel- 

 line, the latter centred with pale brown ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries whitish, edged with pale yellow ; quills below dusky, 

 isabelline along the inner edge. Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 

 045, wing 2-55, tail 2, tarsus OG5. 



Another specimen, apparently young, resembles the female de- 

 scribed above, but is browner and more Sparrow-like, thehead being 

 uniform like the back ; sides of face and under surface of body ashy 

 isabelline, with scarcely any tinge of yellow, except on the chin. 



Hob. N.E. Africa. 



a, b. $ ad. sk, N.E. Africa. Sharpe Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Abyssinia. Sharpe Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Abyssinia. Christiania Mus. [P!]. 



e. cj ad. st. Abyssinia. Purchased. 

 /. 5 ad. sk. Senaar. Purchased. 



26. Passer euchlorus. 



Auripasser euchlora, Licht. MSS. in Mus. Berol. ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 519 



(1850). 

 Chrysospiza euchlora, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. o. 157, note (1850) ; 



Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 639 (1870). 

 Fringilla albeola, Mull. Naum. i. pt. iv. p. 29 (1851). 

 Auripasser muelleri, Bp. Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, p. 17 (1854). 

 Pyrgita euchlora, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 47 (1854). 

 Fringilla euchlora, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 83, no. 7216 (1870). 

 Fringilla muelleri, Gray, t. c. p. 83, no. 7217 (1870). 



Advlt male. General colour above bright yellow ; lesser and 



