536 PASSER STOLICZK.E AND P. AMMODENDRI. 



The whole top and back of the head and neck, interscapu- 

 lar y region, scapulars, and back a rufescent olive brown, paler 

 and more rufescent on the forehead, where the olive tinge is 

 wanting. Feathers of the head faintly paler shafted. Visible 

 portions of closed wings, rump, tail, and upper tail-coverts 

 ferruginous brown, tinged with olivaceous in some, more rusty 

 •in other specimens. Inner webs of quills hair brown. 



Lores pale rufous ; ear- coverts mingled pale rufous and olivace- 

 ous, and the shafts slightly paler. Middle of lower abdomen 

 and feathers above the vent nearly pure white. The rest of the 

 Jower parts (including wing lining and inner margins of qtiills) 

 rufous buff, tinged strongly with olive on the sides and flanks. 



Our specimens were procured at various localities in 

 Tenasserim, Lemyne, Yea, and Tavoy. 



I need scarcely say that this species is wholly different from 

 T. rostratum, Blyth, and T. hicolor, Less, both of which are said 

 to have been recently sent from Tenasserim. 



The former is about 5*75 in length, with a wing 2'7, is a 

 ruddy brown above, has a very elongated bill, and is pure 

 white underneath. 



Bicolor is a much larger bird. Length, about 6*5 ; wing, 

 3'3. Is an uniform ruddy brown above, lighter and more 

 rufous than rostratum, and it has a much thicker and basally 

 broader bill than the latter. It also is white below, but it has a 

 reddish, or in some a brownish, tinge on the breast. 



After all but these two last pages were printed I received 

 Part XXIV of Gould's Birds of Asia, and discovered, too late, 

 that Passer Stoliczha, supra, p. 516, is P. ammodendri, Severt- 

 zoff. I dare say when I do get the latter's work, I shall find 

 that many of ray other supposed Turkestan novelties have been 

 already described by that naturalist. Still, as explained at 

 p. 514, I felt bound in Stoliczka's interests to describe all 

 species that seemed to be new. 



Why I had not seen Gould's Birds of Asia is, that up to this 

 time Mr. Gould had refused to supply Parts 24, &c, to my 

 booksellers, under the impression that I had purchased Parts 

 1 — 23 from some gentleman who had not paid for them, 

 whereas in reality I got my copy from Messrs. Wheldon. No 

 one in Europe, I am sure, realizes the numerous disadvantages 

 at which ornithologists in distant colonies are placed. 



A. 0. H. 



End of Vol. II. 



