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1. Passer Jagoensis. Gould. 

 Plate XXXI. 

 Pyrgita Jagoensis, GoulJ, Proc. of Zool. Soc. 1837. p. 77. 

 P. summo capite, et macula parvd gulari intense nigrescenti-fuscis ; strigd superciliari, 

 collo, humeris dorsoque intens^ castaneis, hujus plumis strigd J'uscd centrali notatis ; 

 alis cauddque brunneis, tectricibus alarum minoribus albis, qui color fasciam trans- 

 versam efficit : lined angustd albd a nare ad oculum ; genis corporeque subtus albis, 

 hoc colore in cinereum ad lalera transeunte : rostro, pcdibusquefiiscis. 



Long. tot. 5 unc; caudev, 2^; alee, 2i ; rost. \; tarsi, ^. 



Crown of the head and a small mark on the throat intense blackish brown, with a 

 stripe on the eyebrows, the neck, shoulders and back bright chestnut, the 

 feathers of the latter marked with a central dusky streak ; wings and tail 

 brown, with the smaller wing coverts white, forming a transverse bar ; a nar- 

 row white line from the nostrils to the eye ; cheeks and under side of body 

 white, this colour passing into grey on the sides ; beak and feet dusky. 



Habitat, St. Jago, Cape Verde Islands (Jajiuary). 



This is the commonest bird in the island ; it frequents, generally in small flocks, 

 both the neighboui'hood of houses and vvild uninhabited spots. It was building 

 its nest towards the end of August. 



2. Passer Hispaniolensis. G. R. Gray. 



Fringilla Hispaniolensis, Tanm. Man. i. 353. 



In the month of January I obtained a specimen of this bird from St. Jago, 

 one of the Cape Verde Islands, where it was not common. 



1. Chlorospiza? melanodera. G. R. Gray. 



Plate XXXII, 



Emberiza melanodera, Qiioy Sf Gaim. Voy. de L'Uranie, Zool. i. p. 109. 



C. Jlavescenti olivacea ; dorso superiori cinereo rtifoque mixto ; vertice, auribus, colli 

 lateribus pectoreque cinereis rufomixtis; lined d naribus pone oculos transiente genisque 

 albis ; plumis inter rostrum et oculos guldque atris; remigibus primariis et secundariis 

 nigrescentibus Jiavo marginatis: caudd rcctricibus mediis olivaceo-fuscis, tribus ex- 

 ternisjere toto pallide jlavis ; abdomine medio Jlavescenti albo, lateribus obscurioribus. 



Long. tot. 6^ unc. ; aliv, 3^ ; caudce, 2f ; tarsi, 10 lines ; rostri, 5 lin. 



Adult. Yellowish olive, mixed with grey and rufous on the upper part of the back ; 



