454 Mr. H. M. Wallis on Passer italise. 



ticular with specimens from Tenasserim and the Eastern 

 Himalayas. Count Salvadori has also recorded it from Su- 

 matra, where it was likewise found by Solomon Miiller many 

 years ago. Count Salvadori^s supposition that Miiller^s name 

 of psittacinus is anterior to that of dalhoiisice does not seem 

 to me to be justified, for Jameson published the latter in 

 January 1835 (Mem. Wern. Soc. Edinb. vii. p. 472), and 

 the page of the ' Tijdschrift ' (p. 349) must surely point to a 

 later publication. 



33. Calyptomena whitehead i, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, 

 p. 558. 



This, the finest of all Mr. Whitehead's discoveries, has 

 already been described by me (/. c.) . 



34. Bambusicola hyperythra, Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 266. 



Two female birds sent by Mr. Whitehead belong, appa- 

 rently, to this species, which was discovered by Mr. Treacher 

 on the Lawas Hiver. The eyebrow and sides of face in the 

 original specimen were dark grey, and in the two individuals 

 now sent these parts are rufous ; but these differences are 

 probably sexual. 



XL VI. — Notes upon the Northern Limit of the Italian 

 Sparrow (Passer italise). By H. M. Wallis. 



At Lugano the Italian Sparrow is abundant, breeding under 

 the tiles of hou^ses in company with the Tree Sparrow {Passer 

 montanus). It is found at different points on the Piave, 

 north of Belluno, crosses the Italian frontier, and is strongly 

 established at Cortina, but does not penetrate the Ampezzo 

 Thai further north, the last few miles of the latter valley 

 and the Hell Thai being apparently unsuited to it. 



At Toblach, in the Pusther Thai, a little place situated at 

 the parting of the waters of the rivers Eisack and Drave, 

 my observations were indecisive. The railway-station 

 south of the town supports a small colony of Sparrows, one 



