TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 555 



tion of the British Museum (Natural History) ; it is probable that another 

 became part of P. L. Sclater's collection and likewise entered the same 

 museum. 



Family PLOCEIDAE: Weaver-finches 



Genus PSEUDONIGRITA Reichenow 



Pseudonigrita amaudi kapitensis Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (14) : 5, Dec. 23, 1910. 

 213773. Adult male. Juja Farm (about 30 miles northeast of Nairobi), 

 Machakos District, Central Province, Kenya Colony. May 14, 1909. 

 Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 15770. Smith- 

 sonian African Expedition. 

 Philetairus cabanisi enchorus Oberholser 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 27: 683, Apr. 13, 1904. 

 ==Pseudonigrita cabanisi (Fischer and Reichenow). See Friedmann, 



U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 153 (2) : 385-386, 1937. 

 177921. Adult male. Dabulli, Arussi-land, Ethiopia (not Somaliland). 

 Sept. 16, 1894. Collected by A. Donaldson Smith. Original number 

 280. 



Genus PASSER Brisson 



Passer domesticus soror Ripley 



Spolia Zeylanica 24 (3) : 241, Nov. 8, 1946. 

 376926. Adult male. Nikawella State Farm, Rattota, Matale District, 

 Central Province, Ceylon. May 18, 1944. Collected by Herbert G. 

 Deignan. Original number 3. 

 Passer montamis orienlalis Clark 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 38: 69, Apr. 30, 1910. 



114228. Adult male. Pusan, South Kyongsang Province, Korea. No- 

 vember 1885. Collected by Pierre L. Jouy. Original number 1427. 



114229. Adult male. Pusan, South Kyongsang Province, Korea. Nov. 

 8, 1885. Collected by Pierre L. Jouy. Original number 1426. 



Clark based this name upon Nos. 114228 and 114229 and an immature 

 male from Hokkaido (No. 201530). Since tlie populations of Hokkaido 

 and Korea are now considered to belong to distinct races, Clark's name, as 

 the oldest available, had to be fixed upon one or the other. Inasmuch as 

 the Hokkaido skin is too young to show the only character adduced by 

 Clark for his new form, the birds from Korea must perforce become the 

 types, and the name orientalis accordingly be employed for the Korean race. 

 See Deignan, Condor 54 (3) : 171, 1952. 

 Passer saturatus Stejneger 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 8: 19, May 6, 1885. 



=Passer montamis saturatus Stejneger. See Orn. Soc. Japan, Handlist 

 of the Japanese birds, ed. 3, rev., p. 10, 1942. 



