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FRINQILLID-<E. 



Male. — Head and back of neck dark chestnut, the feathers edged 

 paler; back sooty brown with whitish edgings; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts pale brown ; shoulder of wing chestnut with white borders to 

 the lesser coverts, rest of the wing dusky with broad pale rufous brown 

 edgings and a whitish bar formed by the tips of the greater coverts ; 

 secondaries edged and tipped whitish ; tail dusky with pale edgings ; 

 lores, cheeks, and a nai'row supercilium white, passing into ashy brown 

 on the ear-coverts ; beneath, the chin, throat and breast black, some of 

 the feathers edged whitish ; rest of the lower parts sullied white or whit- 

 ish ; the flanks and under tail-coverts with dusky longitudinal streaks. 



Length. — 5' 75 inches, wing 3, tail 2. 



The Female resembles that of the common House Sparrow, but the 

 striation of the dorsal feathers is less strongly marked. — (Jerdon.) 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghan- 

 istan, Rajputana (Koochamun) and E. Turkistan. 



Passer pyrrhonotus, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xiii. 946; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. 

 p. 365, No. 709; Murray, Hdhk., ZooL, ^c, Sind, p. 178; Hume and 

 Doig, Str. F. vol. ix. pp. 232, 280, 442. 



Male. — Head and ear-coverts grey ; back, rump, and patch behind 

 the eye chestnut; throat stripe black ; throat, back, lesser and median 

 coverts chestnut ; primaries, secondaries and tertiaries dull brown, 

 narrowly margined with whitish or fulvous white; the primaries with 

 a white spot at their base on the outer web forming a conspicuous wing 

 spot; tail dusky, the feathers pale edged; beneath brownish white. 

 The Female is not unlike that of the common House Sparrow. Bill 

 dusky brown ; legs pale fleshy brown. 



Length. — 5 to 5-25 inches, wing 2*75, tail 2-12, bill at fi'ont •87. 



Hab. — Sind. Breeds in the Narra districts. 



Passer flavicoHis, Frankl. -, Jerd. B. hid. ii. p. 368, No. 711 ; 

 Murray, Hdhk., Zool., S)-c., Sind, p. 178. — The Yellow-throated 

 Sparrow. 



Male. — Head, neck, back, rump, scapulars and under tail-coverts pale 

 earthy brown ; a pale or fulvous supercilium, more distinct in females; 

 chin white ; throat-spot yellow ; the rest of the under surface whitey 

 brown, albescent on the vent and under tail-coverts; primaries and 

 secondai'ies dull brown, the primaries edged paler and tipped whitish, 

 as are also the secondaries ; tertiaries broadly edged and tipped with 

 fulvous ; lesser wing-coverts chestnut ; median and greater coverts dull 

 brown, tipped fulvous white, forming two conspicuous wing bars; edge 

 of the wing white ; tail dull brown, the outermost feathers on each side 

 paler. The Female wants the chestnut on the wing, and is more brown 

 in colour beneath; the thi'oat-spot too is less bright ; upper mandible 

 black, lower yellowish at the base ; irides brown ; legs pale brown. 



Length. — 5*5 inches, wing 3*4, tail 2, tarsus "7. 



Hah. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Beloochistan, Persia, Raj- 

 putana, Kutch (Kattiawar, Jodhpore) N. Guzerat, Deccan and Concan. 

 Breeds in Sind during September and October. 



