GREY-HEADED SPARROW. 
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The inter-scapulars or upper part of the hack is 
brown, tinged with rufous, — this latter colour be- 
comes deeper and brighter on the rump and upper 
tail-covers ; the wings and tail are brown, but the 
covers of the quills are rufous ; the under plumage 
from the breast is white ; bill black ; legs pale. 
Total length, 6 inches ; bill, T c 5 ; wings, 3 ; tail 
beyond, l/j ; ditto, from the base, 2^ ; tarsus, t 7 <j ; 
hind-toe and claw, 
CHESTNUT-CROWNED SAND-FINCH. 
AgrophUus superdliosus , Swains. 
Above brown ; beneath white ; crown and nape rufous ; on 
each side of the throat a macular black stripe ; band over 
the eye, and tips of the wing-covers, whitish ; tail entirely 
brown. 
Ploceus superciliosus, Ruppell , Atlas, pi. 15. 
It is not surprising, considering the confused state 
this family was in some years ago, that the remark- 
able bird we shall now describe, was placed in a 
genus to w'hich it has no affinity. It must be ob- 
served, however, that in the bill it certainly has a 
resemblance to many of the W eavers, although in 
all its other characters, as well as in its general 
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