GREY-HEADED SPARROW. 209 



The inter-scapulars or upper part of the back is 

 brown, tinged with rufous, this latter colour be- 

 comes deeper and brighter on the rump and upper 

 tail-covers ; the wings and tail are brown, but the 

 covers of the quills are rufous ; the under plumage 

 from the breast is white ; bill black ; legs pale. 



Total length, 6 inches ; bill, $ ; wings, 3 ; tail 

 beyond, 1 T 5 5 ; ditto, from the base, 2^ ; tarsus, T 7 5 ; 

 hind-toe and claw, T 5 . 



CHESTNUT-CROWNED SAND-FINCH. 



Agrophttus superdliosus^ SWAINS. 



Above brown ; beneath white ; crown and nape rufous ; on 

 each side of the throat a macular black stripe ; band over 

 the eye, and tips of the wing-covers, whitish ; tail entirely 

 brown. 



Ploceus superciliosus, Ruppett, Atlas, pi. 15. 



IT is not surprising, considering the confused state 

 this family was in some years ago, that the remark- 

 able bird we shall now describe, was placed in a 

 genus to which it has no affinity. It must be ob- 

 served, however, that in the bill it certainly has a 

 resemblance to many of the Weavers, although in 

 all its other characters, as well as in its aene r al 



