Plain-backed sparrow

Plain-backed sparrow
Male in Thailand
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Passeridae
Genus:	Passer
Species:	P. flaveolus
Binomial name
Passer flaveolus Blyth, 1845
Synonyms[2][3]
Passer jugiferus Bonaparte, 1850 Passer assimilis Walden, 1870

The plain-backed sparrow (Passer flaveolus), also called the Pegu sparrow or olive-backed sparrow, is a sparrow found in Southeast Asia. Its range spans from Myanmar to central Vietnam, and south to the western part of Peninsular Malaysia.^[1]

• Giebel, C. G. (1877). Thesaurus Ornithologiae (in German). Vol. III. Brockhaus.
• Summers-Smith, J. Denis (1988). The Sparrows: a Study of the Genus Passer. illustrated by Robert Gillmor. Calton, Staffs, England: T. & A. D. Poyser. ISBN 978-0-85661-048-6.

• Pegu sparrow at the Internet Bird Collection

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