AVES. 411 



black mark; throat cinereous, becoming blackish below. 

 In the female the head-feathers are dusky brown with 

 pale margins, the central stripe above being obsolete or 

 rudimentary, and the lateral stripes isabelline ; chin and 

 throat pale brown with fine black marks. This is E. 

 capistrata, Cab., to judge from the specimen in the 

 Berlin Museum. 



213. E. flaviventris, Vieill. 



Vieillot, Encyc. Meth. 929. 



E. flomgotster, Eiipp. Atlas, t. xxv; Syst. Uebers. No. 298. — 

 Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1868, p. 75. 



Bill brown ; upper mandible dusky ; legs brown. 



Not a common bird in the Anseba valley, and met 

 with also in Habab at about 3,000 feet above the sea. 

 Captain Start shot specimens in a valley below Senafd. 

 Dimensions : — 



Male . 

 Female 



214. Passer Swainsoni, Eiipp. 



Eniberiza capensis, Salt, No. 46, App. p. xlviii. 



Pyrgita Swainsonii, Eiipp. Neu. Wirb. p. 94, t. xxxiii. f. 2. 



P. swvplex, Swains. Birds W. Afr. p. 208. 



P. Swainsonii, Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. No. 295. 



Iris brown. 



The common Sparrow of the Abyssinian highlands, 

 abundant about all villages : it is also common in 

 woods, away from human habitation. It is rare at 

 lower elevations, though I met with it once at AUat. 



In Etippell's figure the white bars on the wing- 

 coverts are omitted, and the ferruginous rump is neither 



