Chestnut-shouldered Petronia

Gymnoris xanthocollis

Beak

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Feet

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Crest

No crest

Resident. Pakistan, Nepal and Indian peninsula. Male from other sparrows by finer bill, uniform (unstreaked} brownish-grey head and upperparts, and yellow patch on lower throat. Has chestnut lesser coverts, and prominent white double wing-bar. Female is similar, but has brown lesser coverts,), buff-tinged tips to median coverts, and yellow on throat is feint or absent. Juvenile similar to female, but upperpart coloration is more sandy-brown, with pale buffish supercilium, and lacks any yellow on throat.: v ·. TN Formerly placed in l'lltronis. Open dry forest. thorn scrub trees at edges. of cultivation and in Pakistan also irrigated plantations.