556 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



21118. Adult (sex not indicated). "Loo Choo Is."-==Okinawa Island, 

 Ryukyu Islands, East China Sea. November 1854. Collected by 

 William Stimpson. U.S. North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Ex- 

 pedition (1853-1856). 

 Passer montanus hepaticus Ripley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 61: 106, June 16, 1948. 



390602. Adult male? (not male). Tezu (elev. 648 feet), Mishmi Hills, 

 Sadiya Frontier Tract, Assam State, India. Jan. 11, 1947. Col- 

 lected by S. Dillon Ripley. Original number 377. Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution-Yale University Expedition. 

 Passer montanus dilutus Richmond 



Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 18: 575, July 25, 1896. 



150331. Adult male. Kashgar (lat. 39°28' N., long. 76^02' E.), 

 Sinkiang Province, China. Mar. 21, 1894. Collected by William L. 

 Abbott. 

 Passer rutilans ignoratus Deignan 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 61 : 16, Mar. 4, 1948. 



306382. Adult male. Mount Omei (at elev. 4,000 feet), Szechwan 

 Province, China. July 9, 1925. Collected by David C. Graham. 

 Original number 2. 

 Passer castanopterus fulgens Friedmann 



Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 5: 428, Oct. 10, 1931. 



246602. Adult male. Indunumara Mountains (about 10 miles southeast 

 of Lake Rudolf) , Northern Frontier District, Kenya Colony. July 15, 

 1912. Collected by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number 23000. 

 Childs Frick African Expedition (1911-1912). 



Gmws SPOROPIPES Cabanis 



Sporopipes frontalis abyssinicus Mearns 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 56 (14) : 7, Dec. 23, 1910. 

 100033. Adult male. Ethiopia. Entered into the museum register on 

 Sept. 26, 1884. Collected by "Blondeel." Purchased from J. G. C. 

 Eugene Rey, in whose private collection it was No. 25845?. 



Genus PLOCEUS Cuvier 



Ploceella hypoxanlha hymenaica Deignan 



Auk 64 (2) : 305, Apr. 14, 1947. 

 =Ploceus hypoxanthus hymenaicus (Deignan). See Delacour, L'Oiseau 



et la Revue frangaise d'Ornithologie 21 (2) : 116, 1951. 

 333049. Adult male. Nong (Bung) Boraphet (lat. 15°43' N., long. 



100^14' E.), central Thailand. June 24, 1932. Collected by Hugh 



McC. Smith. Original number 5646. 



