38. passer. 315 



5, e. J 1 5 ad. sk. Mauritius. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



C. d ad. sk. Chicago, Feb. 26 (H. K. Coale). R. B. Sharpe. Esq. 



[P.]. 

 r,. 2 ad. sk. Chicago, U.S.A., April 8 (H. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



K. Coale). [P.]. 



6. S ad. sk. Chicago, May 26 (H. K. Coale). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 t. Pull. sk. Chicago, May 11 {H. K. Coale)., R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



k. Sternum. England. J. Ingall, Esq. 



X, n, v. Skeleton. England. Purchased. 



|, o, 7T. Skulls. S.Germany. Dr. Giinther [CI. 



p. Skulls. Silesia. Dr. Giinther [C.j. 



4. Passer italiaB. 



Fringilla italia?, Vieill. N. Diet. oVHist. Nat. xii. p. 199 (1817) ; id. 



Gal. Ois. i. p. 76, pi. 0:5 (1825) ; Boux, Orn. Prov. pi. 32 (1825). 

 Fringilla cisalpina, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 351 (1820) ; Werner, 



Atlas, Granivores, pi. 40 (1827); Crespon, Orn. Gard, p. 246 



(1840). 

 Pyrgita cisalpina, Gould, B. Eur. iii. pi. 185. fig. 2 (1837) ; Hupp, 



Syst. Uebers. p. 78 (1845) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. Berol. p. 47 



(1854). 

 Pyrgita italica, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. ty Amer. p. 31 (1838). 

 Passer italicus, Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xl (1840); Dcql. Orn. 



Eur. i. p. 207 (1849) ; Linderm. Vog. Gnechenl. p. 57 (I860). 

 Passer domesticus cisalpiuus, Schl. Rev. Crit. p. lxiv (1844). 

 Passer italise, lip. Consp. i. p. 500 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. 



p. 155 (1850) ; Jaub. et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 128 (1859) ; 



Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. 293; Giglioli, Ibis, 1805, p. 57; Bettoni, Ucc. 



nidif. Lomb. i. pi. 13 (1865) ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 242 



(1867) ; Locke, Ea.pl. Sci. Alger., Ois. i. p. 133 (1867) ; Doderl. 



Avif. Sicil. p. 73 (1869) ; Selys-Longch. Ilns, 1870, p. 454 ; Gray, 



Hdnd-l. B. ii. p. 86, no. 7269 (1870) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 20. 



fig. 11 (c. 1870) ; Salvad. Faun. Ital, Ucc. p. 147 (1871) ; Shelley, 



B.Egypt, p. 148 (1872); Lilford, Ibis, 1875, p. 10; Dresser, B. 



Eur. iii. p. 585, pi. 170. tig. 2'(1S7C); Giglioli, Ibis, 1881, p. 203; 



id. Iconogr. Avif. Ital. part 20 (1882) ; Salvin, Cat. Strie/cl. Coll. 



p. 210 (1882) ; Tristr. Faun. $ Flor. Palest, p. 07 (1884) ; Wliite- 



head, Ibis, 1885, p. 39 ; Giglioli, Avif. Ital. p. 25 (1886) ; Salvad. 



Elench. Ucc. Ital. p. 168 (iS87). 

 Passer cisalpinus, Tristr. Pois, 1859, p. 33 ; E. C. Taylor, t. c. p. 48 ; 



Tristr. Ibis, 1867, p. 369 ; Irby, Ibis, 1872, p. 201 ; id. B. Gibr. 



p. 119 (1875) ; C. B. IVJtarton, Ibis, 1876, p. 25. 

 Passer domesticus italicus, Ileugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pt. 2, p. 629 



(1870). 



Adult male. Differs from P. domesticus in its chestnut head. 

 Similar to P. liispaniolensis, but with the back chestnut streaked 

 with black, this colour confined to the upper back and mantle ; the 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown ; facial markings as 

 in P. hispaniolensis ; under surface of body dull white, brown on the 

 flanks, with no stripes ; the black confined to the throat, and not 



