258 PASSER LUTEUS. 



these Sparrows very plentiful at Njemps in July, and fairly so 

 at Elgeyu in August, and he procured two specimens at the 

 Guasa Molo river in September. Mr. Neumann records it 

 from Kavirondo, and Antinori has obtained an adult male 

 at Daimbi in Shoa, which is the most northern known range 

 for this species. 



Passer luteus. 



Fringilla lutea, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24 (1823) Doiigola. 



Passer luteus, Sharps Cat. B. M. xii. p. 340 (1888) Abyssinia; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 271 (1896); Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 109 (1899) egg ; 



Witherby, Ibis, 1901, p. 247 Kawa; Bothschild and Wollaston, Ibis, 



1902, p. 10 Shcndi. 



Adult male. Entire head, neck and under surface of the body canary 

 yellow ; upper back and scapulars deep cinnamon ; lower back yellow par- 

 tially washed with cinnamon ; upper tail-coverts ashy brown. Wing mostly 

 brownish Ijlack with the least series of coverts dusky yellow ; median and 

 greater coverts with rufous-tinted buff ends ; quills with pale edges, narrow 

 and buff on the primaries, much broader and of a cinnamon shade on the 

 secondaries ; inner lining of wings dusky brown with brownish buff inner 

 edges to the quills, and the coverts mostly white. Tail blackish brown 

 with pale tawny brown edges ; under tail-coverts brownish buff with dark 

 centres. Iris brown ; bill horn colour ; legs pale brown. Total length 

 5 inches, culmeu 04, wing 2-5, tail 20, tarsus 065. S , 26. 6. 50. 

 Khartoum (J. W. von Muller). 



Female. Differs in the forehead, crown, back of neck, back, scapulars 

 and least series of wing-coverts being pale brown ; under parts buff shaded 

 with brown on the sides of the head and sides of the neck and body. Total 

 length 4-4 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2-5, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-65. ? , Sennaar 

 (M. Parreyss). 



The Abyssinian Golden-Sparrow inhabits the Abyssinian 

 district between about 10° and 20° N. lat. 



According to Henglin, in habits and note they much 

 resemble our common House-Sparrow. He found them in the 

 early summer in large flocks along the Blue Nile, in Kordofan 

 and Southern Nubia, to as far north as the Nile between Berber 

 and Dongola. In June and July he met with them in great 



