A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 233 
The female has the lores black; the sides of the face and 
neck, and the upper surface from bill to rump hair brown ; 
upper tail-coverts dull crimson, generally uniform, but some- 
times with each feather tipped with a minute spot of white ; 
tail blackish brown; the two outer pairs with the terminal 
half of outer web broadly edged with white, this white 
extending to the tip of the inner web. The next two pairs 
are tipped with white, as in the male, and the two central 
pairs are wholly blackish brown; chin, throat, breast, and 
flanks greyish yellow; abdomen and vent saffron yellow; 
wings brown; the tertiaries and greater coverts each with a 
terminal white spot; under tail-coverts saffron yellow, paler 
than the abdomen, and in some birds a few of the feathers have 
a mesial black line. 
Occasionally in both sexes the two centre rectrices are 
slightly tipped white. 
Youne birds from the nest are like the female adult. The 
' change to male adult plumage takes place in April, the red 
appearing first on the head. By May the greater portion of 
the head and breast are red, and the abdomen becomes tinged 
with red. By July the change is almost complete, and in 
August there are no immature birds. 
The length is 4 ; expanse, 5°9; tail, 1:5 ; wing, 1°8; tarsus, 
*6; bill from gape, °35. 
319.—Passer domesticus, Zin. (706.) 
There is no part of the province where this species is not 
found, but in general it is less common than montanus. 
320.—Passer flaveolus, Bly. (708 dis.) 
Pretty common at Thyetmyo, and extending down to 
Rangoon. Near Pegu I see a few every year. It has a very 
loud note, which immediately attracts attention. 
The male has already been described (8. F., III, p. 156), 
and so has the female ; but as the description of the latter is 
brief—too brief for the identification of the bird—I subjoin a 
fuller account. 
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, including 
the scapulars and lesser wing-coverts, hair brown, the shafts 
of all the feathers being darker; the median and greater 
coverts and quills dark brown, each feather edged with 
yellowish white; tail brown, edged with whitish on the outer 
webs. 
In the male, the iris is dark hazel; bill black; legs, feet 
