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Galerida CRIST ATA ALTiROSTRis (Rrehm). 



1 c^, Luxor, Egypt, 3 March. 

 Enormous numbers in Egypt. 



Pyrrhul.\uda leucotis leucotis (Stanley). 



Pair, Sennar, Blue-Nile, 25 Dec; Abiad, Dinder, 25 Dec. 

 Not common. In pairs. 



Frixgillidae. 



Petroxia dextata (Sundeval). 



4 cT's, Karkoj, Blue-Nile, 31 Dec; El Sabonabi, 1 Jan.; Ereif el 

 Dik, Dinder, 11 Feb. 



The common sparrow of the thorn forest. 



Passer domesticus arboreus Bonaparte. 



2 cf 's, Khartoum, 23 Dec, 24 Dec 



Seen only as far as Singa but not farther south. 



Passer domesticus chephrexi Phillips. 

 Proc Biol. Soc Washington, 1913, 26, p. 167. 



Type, Adult cf ^I. C. Z. No. 63,594 from Gizeh near Cairo, Egypt, 

 12 December, 1912. 



Description. — Like P. d. indicus but cheeks and ear-coverts much 

 darker (smoke gra}', Ridgway, 1912) instead of whitish. Size similar 

 to P. indicKs. Adult female very similar to P. indicus, but cheeks 

 darker and grayer. 



Remarks. — Hartert (Vogel der Palaarktischen fauna, 1, p. 151), 

 did not name this lower Nile race, his material being insufficient, but 

 in a footnote in the list of species to the first volume he refers the Egyp- 

 tian bird to niloticus of Nicoll & Bonhote (Bull. B. O. C, 22, p. 101). 



P. d. niloticus is apparently a local desert race closely resembling 

 P. d. arboreus, from Kliartoum, and not the typical sparrow of lower 

 Egypt, which Nicoll and Bonhote still refer to P. (/. indicus. 



Pair, Cairo, Egypt, 12 Dec. 



