PASSER EMINI 257 



Adult male in breeding plumage. Entire head, neck, body, lesser wing- 

 coverts, scapulars, upper and under tail-coverts and under wing-coverts 

 uniform rich deep cinnamon, inclining to chocolate brown on the head and 

 throat ; remainder of the wings and the tail blackish brown, with rather 

 narrow bufly edges to the feathers, widening and inclioing to cinnamon 

 on the inner greater coverts ; under surface of quills with whitish inner 

 edges. " Iris brown ; bill black ; tarsi and feet reddish brown." Total 

 length 4-8 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 2-45, tail 1-.5, tarsus 0-6. <? , 22. 

 6. 81. Lado (Emin). 



Adult female. Top and sides of the head and the neck ashy brown, 

 with a rather obscurely marked eyebrow, from the nostril to the nape pale 

 cinnamon, and a wash of that colour on the sides of the upper neck ; upper 

 back slightly browner and strongly streaked with broad, blackish shaft- 

 stripes ; scapulars, middle and lower back pale cinnamon, with the upper 

 tail-coverts browner. Wings and tail dark brown, with narrow pale brown 

 edges to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts more uniform rufous brown ; 

 median coverts tipped with white, forming a partial bar ; under surface 

 of wing, with the coverts and inner edges of the quills white, and the rest 

 of the quills dusky brown ; chin and throat cinnamon, passing into pale, 

 ashy brown on the sides of the lower neck, chest and flanks ; abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts buff. " Iris brown ; bill blackish ; paler on the lower 

 mandible ; tarsi and feet reddish brown." Total length 4-75 inches, culmen 

 0-35, wing 2-45, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-6. ? , 22. 6. 81. Lado (Emin). 



Male, in iynperfect plumage. Somewhat similar in plumage to the adult 

 female, but chiefly differs in the throat and under surface of the body being 

 white, irregularly mottled with deep cinnamon feathers, most numerous on 

 the upper throat, and the top and sides of the head and neck similarly 

 mottled ; the white ends to the median coverts much broader, and the 

 under wing-coverts mottled with deep cinnamon. S , <? , 18. 2. 84. Lado 

 (Emin). 



Bmin's Sparrow inhabits Central Africa between 4° S. lat. 

 and 10° N. lat. 



The most southern range known to me is the Wembei'e 

 plateau to the south of Victoria Nyanza, where Fischer col- 

 lected specimens, as well as at Nguruman, where he found them 

 in small flocks with other Finches feeding in the cornfields. 



It ranges westward to the White Nile where Emin procured 

 specimens at Redjaf and Lado, at which, latter place he dis- 

 covered the type. 



To the north-east of Victoria, Nyanza Mr. Jackson found 



(May, 1902. IV 



