PASSER. 313 



The female has the head and nape brown, tinged with rufescent, the feathers 

 of the forehead with darker centres ; the back rufescent brown, the feathers of 

 which have the terminal portion of the inner webs black and the outer webs a 

 little paler ; rump pale chestnut ; upper tail coverts greyish brown ; tail 

 brown ; superciiium pale rufescent ; lores and a streak behind the eye 

 dark brown ; lower plumage greyish brown, fulvescent or yellowish on the 

 abdomen ; under tail coverts brown, edged with yellowish ; lesser wing coverts 

 rufescent ; median series dark brown, broadly tipped with white ; greater 

 coverts dark brown, narrowly edged with whitish ; quills dark brown, narrowly 

 edged with pale rufescent ; third to seventh primaries with a broader edge of 

 the same near the base of the outer webs ; tertiaries and inner coverts dark 

 brown, edged broadly with rufous. (Gates.) 



Length. 4-5 inches; wing 27 ; tail 17 ; tarsus 0*5 ; bill from gape 0*55. 



Hal. Tonghoo and Karenne, Burmah. 



837. Passer flaveolus, Biyth, J. A. s. B. xiii. p. 946; Hume, 



Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 460 ; Blyth, B. Burnt, p. 94 ; Hume, Str. F. iii. 

 p. 156; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 602 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 107; Oates, 

 Str. F. x. p. 233. Passer jugiferus, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p, 508 ; Blyth, Ibis. 

 1870, p. 172; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 349. The PEGU HOUSE-SPARROW. 



Entire top of head, also the nape and hinder portion of the neck, greenish 

 olive ; lores, chin, and mesial line on the throat black ; a loral streak from the 

 nostrils to eye yellow ; cheeks and ear coverts brighter yellow ; a patch from 

 the eye over the ear coverts to the sides of the nape chestnut, also the back f 

 scapulars and lesser wing coverts ; lower back and rump tinged yellowish ; 

 median wing coverts dark brown, tipped with white ; the greater series and 

 quills dark brown edged with yellowish white ; under surface of the body with 

 the under wing coverts bright yellow ; tail brown, the outer webs tinged with 

 olive yellow. 



The female has the chin, cheeks, throat, and under surface of the body with 

 the under wing coverts pale yellow; a yellowish white superciliary streak 

 extends to the nape ; the plumage of the entire upper surface of the body, 

 including the scapulars and ear coverts hair brown, with darker shafts ; wing 

 coverts dark brown, the feathers edged with yellowish white ; tail brown, the 

 feathers edged with whitish on their outer webs. Bill black $ ; flesh colour 

 & ; iris hazel ; legs plumbeous. 



Length. 5*5 inches ; wing 27 ; tail 2-1 ; tarsus o'6 ; bill from gape 0-55. 

 The female is smaller. 



Hab. British Burmah. Gates says, common about Thayetmyo. It has 

 been observed at Rangoon, and is common also at Pegu. Captain Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay met with it in Karenne. In Cochin China, according to Dr. Tiraud, it 

 is abundant. Breeds on trees, generally in bamboo clumps. 



