266 PASSERINE. 



Bill horny-brown ; irides light-brown ; legs dusky. 



Male, head above and nape dark grey ; a deep chesnut patch 

 behind the eye, widening on the nape ; wing- coverts, scapu- 

 lars, and mantle, dark chesnut, the scapulars and back with 

 brown stripes or dashes ; a white band on the tip of the 

 lesser-coverts ; quills dusky, with their outer edges rufous, more 

 broad on the secondaries, and tipped pale ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts ashy-brown ; tail dusky, light edged ; lores, round the 

 eyes and base of the bill, black ; chin, throat, and breast, black ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of the neck white ; lower parts whitish, ashy 

 on the sides of the breast and flanks. 



The female is light-brown above, back and scapulars edged 

 with pale-rufous ; a pale eye-streak, and the lower parts sullied 

 white ; slightly smaller than the male. 



The House Sparrow is a common permanent resident through- 

 out the region. 



Passer hispaniolensis, Tern. 



707. Passer salicicolus, Vieill. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, 

 p. 364 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 183. 



THE WILLOW SPARROW. 



Length, 575 ; wing, 3 ; tail, 2. 



Male, head and back of neck dark chesnut, the feathers edged 

 paler ; the mantle blackish, with creamy-white edgings to the 

 feathers ; rump and upper tail-coverts pale brown ; shoulder of 

 wing chesnut, with white borders to the lesser-coverts ; the 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 supercilium, white, passing into ashy-brown 

 on the ear-coverts ; beneath the chin, throat and breast, black, 

 some of the feathers edged whitish ; rest of the lower parts sullied 

 white ; the flanks and under tail-coverts with dusky longitudinal 

 streaks. 



The female resembles that of the Common Sparrow, but the 

 striation of the dorsal feathers is less strongly marked. 



This Sparrow very closely resembles the last, chiefly differing 

 in the back of the male more resembling that of the female of the 

 Common Sparrow, and in the black of the breast being less defined, 

 and passing into dashes on the flanks. 



The Willow Sparrow, within our limits, only occurs in the 

 more northern parts of Sind. 



Passer pyrrhonotus, Blyth. 



709. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 365 ; Murray's Vertebrate 

 Zoology of Sind, p. 1 84. 



THE RUFOUS-BACKED SPARROW. 

 Length, 4'62 to 5'37 ; expanse, 7'5 to 8'5 ; wing, 2'43 to 2'68 ; 



