208 FBINGILL1D.E. 



2. Peelfonteiii, 3]st Dec. (J?. -S.). Col. A. T. Sloggett [P.]. 



3. Transvaal, 27tli Sept. Dr. R. Dowdier Sharpe [P.]. 

 8. Potchefstroom, Transvaal, Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



{T. Ayres : Tristram Coll.). 

 2. 14 Streams, Vaal River, Trans- R. D. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 

 vaal, Nov. 



2. 14 Streams, Nov. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 



Passer moabiticus, Tristram. 



Passer moabiticns, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 321 (1888) ; id., 



Hand-l. V. p. 250 (1909). 

 Passer moabiticus moabiticus, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 155 (1904). 



Eggs of the Palestine Sparrow are similar to those of P. indicus, 

 but are often of a somewhat narrower oval shape. They measure 

 from "7 to '8 in length, and from -5 to "53 in breadth. 



5. Palestine. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.1. 



4. Palestine. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



6. Jordan Valley, Palestine, 23rd W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



April. [P.]. 



5. Jordan Valley, 28th April. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



Passer yatei, Sharpe. 



Passer vatii, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 322 (1888) ; Dresser, Man. 

 Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 291 (1902) ; id. Ibis, 1903, p. 405, pi. x. figs. 1-4. 

 Passer moabiticus yatii, Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 155 (1904). 

 Passer yatei, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 250 (1909). 



Three eggs of Yate's Sparrow are of a rather pointed oval shape 

 and fairly glossy. The ground-colour is dull white, densely and 

 finely freckled all over with dull purplish-grey. Two measure 

 respectively u by '5 and -73 by 'S. 



3. Seistan, E. Persia {N. Sarudny). H. E. Dresser, Esq. [E.]. 



Passer motitensis, Smith. 



(Plate X. fig. 1.) 



Passer motitensis, Andersson, B. Damaral. p. 186 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. xii. p. 324 (1888); Stark, Faun. S. Afr., Birds, \. 

 p. 1G2 (1900); Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 244 (1902); Reichenow, 

 Vog. Afr. iii. p. 240 (1904) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 250 (1909). 



Two eggs of the Damara-land Sparrow are of a rather broad oval 

 form and slightly glossy. They are white, sparsely spotted with 

 brownish-grey and lavender-grey round the larger end, and in the 

 epecimen figured there are a few scattered spots over the rest of the 

 shell. They measure respectively -82 by -6 and -8 by "61. 



2. Arljab River, Damara-land, 22nd Crowley Bequest. 

 Oct. (C. J. Andersson: Tristram 



Cull). 



