PASSER. 311 



Head and ear coverts ashy grey ; back and rump chestnut, the feathers 

 with black central streaks and yellowish buff margins ; throat stripe black, 

 the margins of the feathers greyish ; lores and eyelids blackish, a broad chest- 

 nut supercilium continued to the sides of the neck, the anterior portion being 

 whitish ; cheeks and sides of the neck white ; lesser wing coverts chestnut ; 

 the median series also chestnut, with broad black centres and white tips ; 

 greater coverts chestnut with broad black centres and white tips ; primaries, 

 secondaries, and tertiaries dull brown or blackish brown, edged with rufous 

 and with a white spot at base, forming a wing bar ; upper tail coverts ashy 

 brown, with dusky centres ; tail dark brown, edged with fulvous white ; under 

 surface of the body white ; foreneck and breast ashy, the flanks pale brown, 

 and the thighs and under tail coverts, also the axillaries, white. Bill dusky 

 brown ; tarsi dusky fleshy brown ; iris light brown. 



Length. 5-2 to 5-3 inches; wing 2-6; tail 2-5 ; tarsus 0-65 ; oilmen 0*4. 



The female is not unlike the female of the House Sparrow. 



Hab,-^ Sind, on the Eastern Narra 



834. Passer hispaniOlensis (Temm.\ Rupp. Syst. Uebers, p. 78 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 317. Fringilla hispaniolensis, Temm., Man. 

 dOrn. p. 353. Passer salicicolus, Bp. Consp. \. p. 509 ; Jerd., B.lnd. \\. 

 p. 64 ; Murrav, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 183. The WILLOW SPARROW. 



Male. Head and back of neck dark chestnut, the feathers edged paler ; 

 back sooty brown with whitish edgings ; rump and upper tail coverts pale 

 brown ; shoulder of wing chestnut, with white borders to the lesser coverts ; rest 

 of the wing dusky with broad pale rufous brown edgings, and a whitish bar 

 formed by the tips of the greater coverts ; secondaries edged and tipped 

 whitish ; tail dusky with pale edgings ; lores, cheeks, and a narrow superci- 

 lium white, passing into ashy brown on the ear coverts ; beneath, the cbin, 

 throat and breast black, some of the feathers edged whitish ; rest of the lower 

 parts sullied white or whitish ; the flanks and under tail coverts with dusky 

 longitudinal streaks. 



Length. 5 -75 inches ; wing 3 ; tail 2. 



The female resembles that of the common House Sparrow, but the striation 

 on the dorsal feathers is less strongly marked. (Jerdon,} 



Hab. Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Beloochistan, Persia, Afghanistan, 

 Rajputana (Koochamun), and E. Turkistan. 



835. Passer cinnamomeus (Gould), Blyth< J. A. S. B. xiii. 



p. 947 ; Jerd., B. Jnd. ii. p. 365 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 42 ; Beavan, /. c. p. 138 ; 

 Stohckza, J. A. S. B. xxxvii. p. 57 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Jnd. U.p. 459 ; 

 Cock and Marsh, Str. F. 1873, p. 357; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 254; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1879, P- IO 7 5 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xii. p. 326. Pyrgita 

 cinnamomea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 185 ; Blyth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 1 08. 

 The CINNAMON-HEADED SPARROW. 

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