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 258. Passer montana taivanensis Hart. 



Pasm- moidanus Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 466. (Common, teste Swinhoe.) 



Passer montnna taivanensis Hartert, Viiij.pal. Fauna i. Heft ii. p. 161 (1904 —Formosa). 



14 (?? Kiungchau, Febrnar}'— March 1902 (No. 1). 



1 <J, 2 <?<? jiiv. Hoihow, March 1902, August 1903 (No. 1). 



The Hainan Tree Sparrow can, in ray opinion, be united with the Formosan 

 form, wliich is probably .spread over Southern (Jhina. It cannot be mistaken for 

 the Indian form, P. inontana malaccens/s Dubois, which has a smaller bill and 

 lighter colour on the upper surface, while the Japanese snbspecies {Passer 

 montana saturatus Steju.) — though very closely allied — has the bill not ((nite 

 so powerful. It is true that, on the whole, Hainan examples average slightly 

 less in their bills, but some Formo.sau specimens have bills quite like others 

 from Hainan, while, on the other hand, some Hainan specimens have as powerful 

 bills as Formosan ones. 



259. Sporaeginthus amandava (L.). 



Fringnia Amandai-a Linnaeus, Sijal. Nat. ed. x. p. 180 (1758— ex Albin, pi. 77. " Habitat in India 

 orientali "). 



3 <?<? Cheteriaug, January 1904 (No. lOO). 



These specimens are very brightly coloured. The species does not seem to 

 have been recorded from Hainan before. 



260. Munia acuticauda Hodgs. (? subspec). 



Vroloncha squainicoUis Sharpe, Cat. BinU Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 359 (1890— partim !). 

 Urohncha sqnamicoUis Grant, P. Z.S. 1900. p. 466 (Hainan). 



? Secha, April 11, 1902 (No. 116). 



2 <?<? No-Tai, September 1902 (No. 116). 



2 (J(? Lei Muimon, January 1003 (No. 116). 



4 ? ? Utoshi, March 1903 (No. 116). 



3 <?<?, 3 ? ? Wupachi, April 1904 (No. 245). 



I cannot separate the Hainan series from specimens of M. acuticatida of India 

 and Malacca, though some are slightly smaller. On the other hand, Chinese 

 specimens (Shanghai, Foochow, Whamijoa) differ from Indian ones as described 

 by Sharpe in the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 359, by having larger bills ; the 

 Formosan birds agree with the Chinese ones {M. acuticauda .vjuamicoUis Sharpe), 

 excei)t that the wing is slightly shorter, and the throat mostly darker, but I do 

 not feel justified in separating them without comparing a larger series from China. 



261. Munia topela Swinh. 



Munia topela Swinh., Ihis v. p. 380 (1863) (Amoy and Canton) ; Grant, P. Z.S. 1900. p. 463. 



9 (J? Hoihow, March 1902, February 1903 (No. 36). 



8 (J? Kiungchau, March 1902 (No. 36). 



? No-Tai, September 1902 (No. 36). 



? Lei Muimon, January 1903 (No. 36). 



Hainan specimens do not differ from Chinese ones. 



