38. PASSER. 



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Hub. The whole of South Africa to the Zanzibar district on the 

 east coast aud to Angola on the "west coast. In West Africa it 

 occurs from Senegambia to the Niger district. Dr. Rochebrune 

 states that P. sivainsoni, P. diffusus, and P. oceidentcdis all occur in 

 Senegambia ; but further proof is necessary before this statement 

 can be accepted. 



a. Passer diffusus. 



South Africa. 



a, b. Ad. sk. 



c. 2 a-d. sk. 



d. 3 imm. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 



f. g. Ad. sk. 

 'h. Ad. sk. 



I, 3 ad. ; k. 3 



juv. sk. 

 I. 3 ad. sk. 

 m. 3 ad. sk. 



n. $ ad. sk. 



o. Ad. sk. 



Ad. sk. 

 Ad. sk. 



;•. Ad. sk. 



s. Ad. sk. 

 t. Ad.sk. 

 u. Ad. sk. 

 v, w. Ad. sk. 

 x. Ad. sk. 

 y. Ad. sk. 

 z. Ad. sk. 

 a'. Juv. sk. 



Upiugton, Orange River, 



April 11. 

 Transvaal (T. Ay res). 

 Crocodile River, July (F. 



Oates). 

 Tete, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). 

 Mozambique. 

 Otjimbinque, Damara-Land, 



June (C. J. Andersson). 

 Otjimbinque, Nov. 3 (C.J. A.). 

 Elephant Vley, Aug. 15 (C. 



J. A.). 

 Swakop River, Damara-Land, 



Feb. 1 (C.J. A.). 

 Kattenbella, Benguela, Oct. 



31 (Sala). 

 Angola (Sala). 

 Zanzibar Island. 



ft. P. gidaris. 

 River Niger. 



River Niger. 



Abeokuta. 



Fantee (H. T. Ussher). 



Asbantee. 



Senegambia. 



River Gambia. 



River Gambia. 



River Gambia, Dec. 21, 1864. 



Sir A. Smith [C.]. (Types 



of species.) 

 Dr. F. Bradshaw [P.]. 



Sharpe Coll. 



W. E. and C. G. Oates, 



_Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Livingstone Exped. 

 Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 Dr.J.M.tIildebrandt[C.]. 



Forbes Coll. (Type of 



P. occidentalis.) 

 Mrs. Heywood [P.]. 

 F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 J. Gould, Esq. 

 Purchased. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



22. Passer ammodendri. 



Passer ammodendri, Severtz* ; Bode, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 481 ; Gould, 

 B. Asia, v. pi. 15 (1872); Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. pp. 64, 115; 



* The late Dr. Severtzoff, although lie apparently did not publish his de- 

 scription of P. ammodendri until 1873, distributed specimens to museums and 

 dealers before that date. It was in answer to my solicitations that Mr. Dode, 

 recently escaped from the Paris Commune with a few rare specimens of birds, 

 exhibited some of theni at a meeting of the Zoological Society in May 1871, 

 and Mr. Gould appears to have been actually the first to give any sort of descrip- 

 tion of this fine Sparrow. As, however, the specimens belonged to Dr. Severtzoff 

 were collected by him and bore the name he had given, nothing could be 

 more unfair than to deprive him of the credit of naming the species. 



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