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of which, under a binocular_, at a distance of about fifteen yards, 

 showed no grey upon the crown ; yet he was scarcely a typical 

 Italian Sparrow, showing a distinct crease or break in the 

 feathering of the head. The Sparrows of the town itself I 

 failed to identify; those of a small detached hamlet a mile 

 north of it are fairly typical P. domesticus, the grey crown 

 rather narrow and the chocolate eyebrows somewhat more 

 pronounced than in Sparrows at Mainz and Munich. 



Sparrows were seen, but not identified, at various roadside 

 stations in the Pusther Thai, west of Toblach. At Bruneck 

 there wei'e several nests in the gable of the station, and an 

 Italian Sparrow was seen. Franzenfeste seems to support no 

 Sparrows of any kind; but at Waidbruck, further south, 

 Italian Sparrows are common; there also the Tree Sparrow 

 reappears, building a conspicuous nest under the eaves of the 

 goods-shed. No Sparrows were seen in the valley between 

 Waidbruck and the village of St. Ulrich, in the Dolomites, 

 but at the latter there is a strongish colony of Italian 

 Sparrows. 



Following the Brenner northwards, I saw one or two Spar- 

 rows at stations north of Franzenfeste, but I failed to identify 

 them ; the last was noticed at a little town lying at the 

 southern end of the great loop which the line makes in 

 ascending the upper gradients of the pass. At Innsbruck 

 P. do7nesticus reappears alone. 



On the French frontier my notes are scanty. At Hy^res, 

 Var, P. domesticus prevails, nor did I see anything else ; and 

 it would be interesting to discover at what point on the 

 Riviera the races meet. I may add that I have no reason 

 to think that Lugano is the northern limit of the Italian 

 Sparrow in the Tessin ; for although I saw none in the Val 

 Sarantina^ some one else may be more fortunate. 



