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included Passer cisalpinus by mistake lor this species. I have 

 now great pleasure in correcting that error. P. domesticus is 

 very abundant all along the Nile vallejr, and is the only Sparrow 

 that I have seen in the city of Cairo, where it swarms, and is 

 remarkably tame and pert. In the month of March I noticed 

 it breeding in Upper Egypt in holes in the mud-banks of the 

 Nile. 



98. Passer salicicola, Vieillot. Spanish Sparrow. 



More abundant even than the last species, and usually m 

 larger flocks. I consider ^' Spanish^' a very bad epithet for 

 this species; for I never once saw it during a three months' tour 

 in Spain, where P. domesticus was the only Sparrow I found. Tn 

 Algeria and Tunis this is the Sparrow of the country ; and 

 indeed I saw no other there. All over Italy and Sicily P. cis- 

 alpinus is certainly the most common, and, indeed, the only 

 species I ever saw ; nor did I ever meet with P. cisaJpiinis 

 except in those countries. In the South of France, Spain, 

 Smyrna, and Constantinople, P. domesticus is the Sparrow of 

 the country. In these ren)arks on Sparrows I do not include 

 Passer muntaims or Petronia stulta, which are not representa- 

 tive species. 



99. LiNOTA CANNABiNA (L.) . Couimou Liuuct. 

 Abundant about Cairo in January. 



100. Erythrospizagithagixea, Lichtenstein. Desert-Bull- 

 finch. 



I never saw this pretty bird near Cairo ; but it is very com- 

 mon in Upper Egypt, where it is generally to be seen in small 

 flocks towards the edge of the desert. The species is satisfac- 

 torily figured by Dr. Brec (B. Eur. iii. p. 81). 



101. Sturnus vulgaris, L. Common Starling. 

 Occasionally seen, and sometimes shot. 



102. CoRvus FRUGiLEGus, L. Rook. 



I saw a small flock of Rooks, about twenty in number, in a 

 grove of Palm trees [PJicenix dactylifera) near Ghizeh, January 

 29th, 1864. I never saw the Rook in Egypt on any other 

 occasion. 



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