THE PEGU HOUSE-SPARROW. 
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330. PASSER FLAVEOLUS. 
THE PEGU HOUSE-SPARROW. 
Passer fiaveolus, Bl. J. A. S. B. xiii. p. 946 ; Hume, Nests and J^ggs, p. 460 ; Bl. ^ 
Wald. B. Burm. p. 94 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 156 ; Anders. Yunnan Exped. p. 602 ; 
Hume, S. F. viii. p. 107; Oates, S. F. x. p. 233. Passer jugiferus, Temm.y 
Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 508 ; Bl. Ibis, 1870, p. 172. 
Description. — Male. Lores^ chin and a stripe down the throat black ; a 
line over the lores from the nostrils to the eye yellow ; cheeks and ear- 
coverts with the whole lower plumage and under wing-coverts rather bright 
yellow ; a patch extending from the eye over the ear-coverts to the sides of 
the nape chestnut ; forehead, top of head, nape and hind neck greenish 
olive ; back, scapulars and lesser wing-coverts chestnut ; lower back and 
rump brown tinged with yellow ; tail brown, the outer webs tinged with 
olive-yellow ; median wing-coverts dark brown, broadly tipped with white ; 
greater wing-coverts and all the quills dark brown, edged with yellowish 
white. 
Female. The chin, throat, cheeks and the whole lower plumage with the 
under wing-coverts pale yellow ; a streak from the eye to the nape yellov/ish 
white ; the upper plumage from the forehead to the upper tail-coverts, the 
scapulars and lesser wing-coverts hair-brown, the shafts of all the feathers 
darker ; the median and greater wing-coverts and the quills dark brown, 
each feather edged with yellowish white ; tail brown, the feathers edged 
with whitish on the outer webs. 
Bill black in the male, flesh-colour in the female ; iris dark hazel-brown ; 
legs and claws plumbeous flesh-colour. 
Length 5*5 inches, tail 2*1, wing 2'7, tarsus '6, bill from gape '55. The 
female is rather smaller than the male. 
The Pegu House-Sparrow is tolerably common about Thayetmyo. I 
have also observed it at Rangoon and Pegu, and throughout the intervening 
country. Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay met with it in Karennee. 
Dr. Tiraud states that it is very abundant in Cochin China ; and it is 
therefore not improbable that Temminck^s F. juyiferus really came from 
the Philippine Islands. Dr. Anderson procured it at Mengoon on the 
Irrawaddy in Independent Burmah. 
This Sparrow is comparatively rare, and not so frequently seen in 
houses, even in Thayetmyo, as either of the two preceding species. It has 
a fondness for the jungle, and makes its nest for the most part in bamboo- 
clumps. At the Wanetkone bungalow, however, between Pegu and 
Rangoon, I discovered its nest in the roof of the verandah at the end of 
March. It contained young birds. The note of this Sparrow is very con- 
spicuously louder than that of the other House-Sparrows. 
