PASSERES— FRINGILLID/E 31 



(^ Crown, ear coverts, nape, rump, and upper tail coverts ashy 

 grey with broad chestnut stripe over eye meeting on hind neck ; 

 back and scapulars chestnut streaked l^lack, lesser wing coverts 

 tipped white ; cheeks and sides of neck white ; beneath greyish 

 white, chin, throat, and chest black, flanks not streaked. Bill 

 (winter) 'brov.-n, (summer) black. Legs and feet brown. Wing 

 ^ 72-82, $ 71-77. Tarsus 18-20. Bill 10-12. $ brown, darker 

 on back and streaked black and yellowish brown ; no black on 

 throat and chest. Bill brown. 



Resident. — All continental Europe and British Isles, from about 

 68° N. to Mediterranean (in Italy only to N.), N. Morocco, 

 Sardinia, Balearic Isles, Grecian Archipelago, and in W. Asia. 



P. domesticus tingitanus Loche. Very like typical form, but 

 grey feathers of head black at base, in spring head appears grey 

 spotted black ; ear coverts less grey and washed buff. 



Resident. — Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco. 



P. domesticus alexandrinus Madarasz. Smaller than 

 "domesticus," sides of head white strongly tinged brownish 

 grey, crown and rump lighter. 



Resident. — Egypt, Cairo to Alexandria. 



P. domesticus niloticus Nicoll and Bonhote. ^ Crown, hind 

 neck, and rump slate grey ; back pale chestnut with buff margins ; 

 a post-aural patch chestnut not meeting on nape. Wing 73-76 (H.). 



Resident. — Nile Valley, Fayoum to W^adi Haifa. 



Passer italiae (Vieillot). Italian Sparrow. 



(^ like "domesticus" but back almost entirely chestnut, eye 

 stripe short, white ; crown and nape chestnut ; cheeks and ear 

 coverts whiter; flanks not streaked. 9 ^s in 9 "domesticus." 

 Wing c^ 75-79. 



Resident. — Italy south of Alps, Sicily, Malta, Corsica, Crete, 

 Bosnia, France (occasional), S. Switzerland, S. Tyrol. 



Passer hispaniolensis hispaniolensis (Temminck). 

 Si'ANiSH Sparrow. Fr. Moineau cspagnol ; Gcr. Weiden- 

 spcrling ; Ital. Passera sarda. 



(^ Crown, nape, and lesser wing coverts chestnut, last with 

 white tips ; back l)lack, some feathers tawny or white on outer web ; 

 beneath, throat, foreneck, and breast black, flanks broadly streaked 



