196 MR, W. J. F. WILLIAMSON ON 



feathers largel}- black ; lesser wing-coverts dull chestnut ; median 

 coverts black, edged with white ; greater coverts blackish, edged with 

 pale chestnut and tipped with whitish ; quills dark brown, edged with 

 rufous, narrowly on the primaries and more broadly on the inner 

 feathers ; rump and upper tail-coverts pale chestnut-brosvn ; tail brown, 

 edged with pale rufous. 



Iris brown. Bill black. Legs flesh-colour. Claws horn-colour. 



Distrihidion. Recorded by Ogilvie-Grant and Gyldenstol]ie from 

 Peninsular Siam and by the latter also from the Eastern and Central 

 divisions. So far, the bird does not appear to have been definitely 

 reported from Northern or South-eastern Siam*, but I have observed it 

 at Sriracha, in the last mentioned part of the country. 



Ilahits. &c. The so-called Tree-Sparrow is tlie common House- 

 Sparrow of Bangkok, where it is exceedingly abundant. Tiiis bird has a 

 wide range over Europe, Africa and Asia, and its trivial name of Tree- 

 Sparrow is probably'accounted for by the fact tliat in Europe it usually 

 nests in trees, wh n-eas in the East it generally builds in holes about 

 houses and other buildings. This it certainly does in Bangkok. 



51 (781). Passer flaveolus Blyth. Thp Pogu Sparrow. 



Paam- fareo/u.^ Gyldenstolpe 1016, p. 20. 



Siamese, unnir'^Qn ui ( Nok kra-chok pa ). 



Beficription. Length up to 152 mm. (6 in.), ifale. The lores, 

 chin and a broail stripe down tlie throat black ; cheeks, centre of 

 abdomen, under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts yellow ; breast and 

 flanks greenish grey ; a patch extending from the eye to the sides of 

 the nape chestnut ; forehead, top of head, nape, and hind neck dark 

 greenish grej' ; back, scapulars and lesser wing-coverts chestnut — tlie 

 feathers fringed with greenish grej' ; lower back- and rump greenish 

 grey, slightly darker than the flanks; tail brown, edged witii 

 dull greenish grey; wing-feathers dark brown, edged with greenish. 

 Female. The chin, throat, cheeks, a streak from the eye to the nape, 



* Oylilenstolpe rertaiiily ob.<5ervos (op. r/t, siij>ri( 1913, p. 41 ) tlmt this 



Sparrow is " very (MuniiKin over t lie wliole country," Imt in tlio scpiiiiilc 



lists of spooics rcocii-ili'd frora tlio dilTerent parts visited { given nn (latrcs 

 7-12 of the Paper), it f);ily appears in those relating to Eastern and Central 

 Siam. 



JOI'HN. NAT. Hli^T.'.SOf, SIAM. 



