. Birds. Birds. PASSES. 237 p. 600; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 307 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 265 i Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ij, p. 169. The Indian House-Sparrow, Jerd.; Gouriya, Hind, in the Nortli; Churl and Khas churi, Hind, in the South; Charia or Chata, Beng.; Uri-pichike, Tel.; Adihi lam ktiravi, Fig. 67.—Head of F. domesHcus. Coloration. Male. Head from forehead to nape ashy grey ; lores and round the eye blackish ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck pure white ; a broad streak from the eye over the ear-coverts, and passing partially round the end of them, chestnut; chin
. Birds. Birds. PASSES. 237 p. 600; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii, p. 307 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 265 i Oates in Hume's N. Sf E. 2nd ed. ij, p. 169. The Indian House-Sparrow, Jerd.; Gouriya, Hind, in the Nortli; Churl and Khas churi, Hind, in the South; Charia or Chata, Beng.; Uri-pichike, Tel.; Adihi lam ktiravi, Fig. 67.—Head of F. domesHcus. Coloration. Male. Head from forehead to nape ashy grey ; lores and round the eye blackish ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck pure white ; a broad streak from the eye over the ear-coverts, and passing partially round the end of them, chestnut; chin, throat, and the median portion of the breast black, some of the lowermost feathers margined with ashy; remainder of lower plumage ashy white ; back and scapulars chestnut, the terminal two thirds of the inner webs black ; rump and upper taU-coverts ashy grey; tail brown, margined paler; lesser wing-coverts chestnut; median coverts blackish, broadly tipped with white; greater coverts blackish, broadly margined with rufous and tipped paler; quiUs dark brown, margined with pale rufous. Female. The head from the forehead to the nape and the extreme upper back with the rump and upper tail-coverts brown ; the back and scapulars pale rufous, with the inner webs chiefly black ; tail brown, edged paler; a rather broad supercilium pale rufous-white; sides of the head ashy brown ; the whole lower plumage ashy white, darker on the breast; lesser wing-coverts brown ; median coverts blackish, broadly tipped with rufous-white; greater coverts and wings dark brown, edged with pale rufous. In fresh or autumn plumage the male has the feathers of the back and breast margined with ashy ; but these margins soon wear oflF. In summer the bill of the male is usually black, but this is not always the case ; in winter the colour is a light horn-colour but occasionally black ; the female has the bill always brown ; in both sexes the iris is brown, the legs pale brown. Length 6 ; tail 2-2; wing 3 ; ta
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