— 186 — 



Irides dark-brown ; bill in cf black (basal part of lower man- 

 dible sometimes lighter); in 9 upper mandible brownish-grey — 

 dark-grey; lower mandible yellowish brown (sometimes with dark 

 tip); legs dark grey. 



Fringiilidae. 



Passer griseus ngandae Rchw. — Rchw. III. p. 230. 



Passer diffusus Smith. — Og.-Grant: Zool. Res. Ruw. Exp., 1910, p. 304. 

 Rabang . . . ki-kavirondo. 

 3 (5(5 ad. 18.— 22. 8. Kendu. 



Very common in the Kendu country. All three specimens 

 are in moult. Zed lit z (Journ. f. Orn., 1911, p. 36) has fixed 

 the range of P. g. suahelicus Rchw. to German East Africa, 

 Victoria Lake to Sambesi and of F. g. ugandae Rchw. to the 

 Central Provinces. Sclater & Mackworth-Praed (Ibis 

 1918, p. 472) say, on the contrary, that the former occurs in 

 German East Africa and Nyasaland, north along the coast to 

 Lamu in British East Africa, where it occurs side by side with 

 P. gongonensis Oust. The range of the latter they fix to Uganda. 

 One should then mostly expect on the eastern shores of Lake 

 Victoria to find the former, but all these specimens have the 

 back deep reddish brown and are thus undoubtedly ugandae. 



Wing 85, 87, 87 mm., tarsus 19-20. 



Irides brownish red; bill black; legs brownish grey. 



Passer rufocinctus Fschr. & Rchw. — Rchw. 111. p. 241. 

 1 (5 ad. 19. 9. Kiambu. 



By a little stream in the neighbourhood of Nairobi a little 

 flock of 5 individuals was met with. 



Agrees with Reichenow's description except that the 

 lower wing-coverts are not white but grey, with a faint wash of 

 ochre-yellow. 



Wing 77 mm. tarsus 20 mm. 



Irides whitish yellow; bill black; legs dark greyish brown. 



Passer (Sorella) emini-bey Hartl. — Rchw. III. p. 248. 



Sorella emini-bey. Hartl.: Journ. f. Orn. 1880, p. 211. — Sorella emini 

 Hartl. Neumann: Journ. f. Orn., 1900, p. 287. — Gurney: Ibis, 1909, 

 p. 493. — Auripasser emini (Hartl.) — Lonnberg: Kongl. Sv. Vet. Akad. 

 Handl., Bd. 47, No. 5, p. 109. - Reichenow : Vog. Afr. HI, p. 248. — 

 Passer (Sorella) emim-bey Hartl. Sclater & M.-Praed: Ibis, 1918, 

 p. 470. 



1 ^ ad. 19. 8. ; 1 $ ad. 19. 8. Kisumu. 



