148 BIEDS OF EGYPT. 



The figure is taken from my Damietta specimen, which is 

 still in my collection. 



ram. FRINGILLID-ai. 



115, Passer domesticus (Linn.). Common Sparrow. 



The Sparrow is as abmidant in Egypt and Nubia as in 

 Europe, and remains there throughout the year. 



Male. — Top of the head, nape, and sides of the breast slate- 

 colour ; chin, throat, and region of the eyes black ; behind the 

 eye a small white spot ; ear-coverts greyish-white, and behind 

 them a broad band of chestnut extending over the eye ; back 

 and scapulars chestnut, with black centres to the feathers ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts greenish grey ; quills black, 

 edged with chestnut ; lesser wing-coverts chestnut, the lower 

 row broadly tipped with white, forming an alar bar; tail 

 dark brown, the feathers edged with yellowish brown ; under- 

 parts pale dusky grey ; legs and beak pale brown ; irides 

 hazel. 



Entire length 5'5 inches; culmeu 0*5; wing, carpus 

 to tip, 3'1 ; tarsus 0'6. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 184. 



11(5. Passer Italle (Vieill.). Italiaii Sparrow. 



According to Von Heuglin (Orn. N. O. Afr. p. (330), this 

 bird is to be met with in Egypt and Nubia, and extends its 

 range as far south as the Blue Nile. I have never, to my 

 knowledge, seen an Egyptian specimen of this Sparrow. 



Male. — Top of the head and back of the neck chestnut ; 



