6-2 FOX-COLOURED SPARROW. 



Bill dark brown above, the base of the lower mandible yellow, its tip 

 bluish ; iris deep brown ; feet flesh-coloured ; upper part of the head 

 and neck smoke-grey ; back dusky brown ; rump, tail, wing-coverts, and 

 outer part of the quills bright ferruginous ; tips of the coverts whitish, 

 forming a narrow bar, space from the upper mandible to the eye pale 

 reddish ; ear-coverts chestnut. The ground colovu* of the lower parts is 

 white anteriorly, pale greyish behind ; the sides of the neck, the throat, 

 and flanks, marked with triangular spots of chestnut, which are darker 

 on the hind parts. 



Length Tf inches ; extent of wings 10| ; bill ^% along the ridge, ^^ 

 along the gap ; tarsus j%, middle toe 1. 



Adult Female. Plate CVIIT. Fig. 2. 



The Female differs little from the Male, the tints being merely some- 

 what fainter. Length 7^ inches. 



