FRINGILLID^. 

 Measurements of a male and a female 



187 



229. Passer diflPllSUS, Smith. Southern Grey-headed Sparrow. 

 Passer diffusus, Smith's Append, to Report of Exp. p. 50. 



„ „ Gurney, Birds Dam.ar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1804, p. 3. 



„ „ Layard's Cat. No, 407. 



Passer simplex, ibid. No. 409. 

 Passer Sivainsoni (part.), Finsch and Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, 



p. 450. 

 Passer diffusus, Sharpe, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 143. 



„ ,, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 7283. 



,, „ Sharpe's Cat. No. 655. 



I met with this species very sparmgly in Damara 

 Land, but found it pretty common on approaching the 

 river Okavango ; it frequents the water in the morning 

 and evening, and feeds on seeds and berries. 



In some specimens of this bird the bill is quite black, 

 in others pale greyish brown with yellow near the base 

 of the lower mandible ; the legs and toes are pale 

 greyish brown. 



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