SPANISH SPATIROVV. 
1.S5 
is a similar band above the carpus, extending from tlie 
cbecks; tlic lesser coverts arc the same colour as the 
top of the head and nape, the others broadly bordered 
with russet. Tail olivaceous hrown, with the feathers 
slightly bordered with ash-colour; beak black; feet 
reddish ; iris brown. 
In autumn the male has the feathers of the neck 
and crop bordered with ash, like the Domestic Spar- 
row, and the white of the cheeks also more ash-coloured. 
The female has the head, top of neck, and body 
grey brown, with the feathers of the scapularies and 
the quills of the wings, fringed along their borders 
with yellowish; below, the colour is dirty white, with 
faint spots of brown in front of the neck and crop, 
and the flanks of a russet and ashy tint; beak brownish 
above, yellowish below. 
The young before the first moult resemble the 
female, only the tints are paler, and the commissures of 
the beak soft and yellow. 
My drawings of this bird and its egg are from 
specimens kindly sent me by Mr. Tristram. The bird 
is marked “Rhodes, April 19, 1858.” 
It has also been figured by Roux, Ornith. Prov., pi. 
84, (adult male ;) Gould, B. of E., pi. 185. 
