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unlikely that two distinct but closely allied Sparrows should be 

 found together in Toungngoo and its neighbourhood. Under these 

 circumstances I shall not include P. rutilans among the birds of 

 the Indian Empire. In case, however, it should be met with, the 

 male may be recognized by its similarity to the male of P. cinna- 

 momeus, from which it differs in having the cheeks and ear- coverts 

 pure white and the lower plumage ashy white without a trace of 

 yellow. The females of the two species are undistinguishable from 

 each other. P. rutilans is found in China. 



781. Passer flaveolus. The Pegu House-Sparrow. 



Passer flaveolus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiii, p. 946 (1844); id. Cat. 



p. 120 j Hume, N. fy E. p. 460 j Blyth $ Wold. Birds Burm. p. 94 ; 



Hume, S. F. iii, p. 156 j Anders. Yunnan Exped. } Aves, p. 602 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 708 bis ; Oates, B. B. i, p. 349; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. 



xii, p. 330 ; Salvation, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2), vii, p. 419 ; Oates 



in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 165. 

 Passer jugiferus, Temm., Bonap. Consp. Av. i, p. 508 (1850). 



Coloration. Male. After the autumn moult the lores, chin, and 

 a stripe down the throat are black ; a line over the lores from the 

 nostrils to the eye yellow ; cheeks and ear-coverts with the whole 

 lower plumage and under wing-coverts rather bright yellow; a 

 patch extending from the eye over the ear-coverts to the sides of 

 the nape chestnut ; forehead, top of head, nape, and hind neck 

 greenish olive ; back, scapulars, and lesser wing-coverts chestnut 

 fringed with greenish ; lower back and rump brown tinged with 

 yellow ; tail brown, the outer webs tinged with olive-yellow ; 

 median wing-coverts dark brown, broadly tipped with white ; 

 greater wing-coverts and all the quills dark brown, edged with 

 yellowish white. In the summer the greenish fringes are worn 

 away. 



Female. The chin, throat, cheeks, and the whole lower plumage 

 with the under wing-coverts pale yellow; a streak from the eye to 

 the nape yellowish white ; the upper plumage from the forehead 

 to the upper tail-coverts, the scapulars and lesser wing-coverts 

 hair-brown, the shafts of all the feathers darker ; the median and 

 greater wing-coverts and the quills dark brown, each feather edged 

 with yellowish white ; tail brown, the feathers edged with whitish 

 on the outer webs. 



Bill black in the male, flesh-colour in the female ; iris dark hazel- 

 brown : legs and claws plumbeous flesh-colour. 



Length 5" 5 ; tail 2*1 ; wing 2*7 ; tarsus '6 ; bill from gape '55. 



Distribution. Mengoon on the Irrawaddy river in Upper Burma ; 

 Arrakan; the greater part of Pegu, but the species is more 

 abundant in the northern portion ; the Karen hills east of Toung- 

 ngoo ; Karenuee ; extending into Cochin China. 



Habits, Sfc. Frequents habitations and jungle near houses, 

 breeding in March and other months. 



