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catcli a flock of Sparrows in a clap-net^ and brought the whole 

 lot home ; on examination I found 162 Domestic and 64 

 Willow-Sparrows, but not a single Tree-Sparrow, although 

 the birds were caught in a field close by an old building full 

 of Tree-Sparrows. 



115. Passer hispaniolensis, Temm. 

 Kandahar, 1 $ , 6,4,81 ; 4 ^J , 5 ? , 16,4,81. 



A summer visitor. Arrived in large flocks with P. domes- 

 ticus in the early part of April. The testes of the several 

 males I examined were not, however, nearly so well deve- 

 loped as those of P. domesticus. 



116. Passer montanus (Linn.) . 

 Kandahar, 1 c? , 1 ? , 18,1,81 ; 1 ? , 2,2,81. 



Common everywhere. The common House- Sparrow of the 

 country. 



117. Petronia stulta (Gmel.). 



Kandahar, 1 not sexed, 1?, 12,80; 1?, 13,1,81; 1?, 

 22,1,81; 1$, 15,2,81. 



Evidently a winter visitor. Not observed after the end of 

 February. 



118. Emberiza leucocephala, S. G. Gm. 

 Kandahar, 2 S , 2,1,81 ; ? , 29,1,81. 



Also one shot at Quetta by Dr. Duke in February. A 

 winter visitor. 



119. Emberiza huttoni, Blyth, 



Kandahar, 1 (^, 8,4,81 ; Gatai, \^ , 28,4,81 ; Kojuk, l^, 

 29,4,81. 



Arrived in the first week in April. Numbers were found 

 resting on the city walls at Kandahar on the 8th April ; and 

 great numbers were to be seen feeding on the road all the way 

 to the Kojuk. 



120. Emberiza stewarti, Blyth. 

 Chaman, Ic^, 27,4,81. 



First and only specimen obtained at Chaman as above; 

 had not arrived when we left Kandahar. 



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