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common bird at home. Its habits and note are almost 

 identical with tho^e of the latter. In Jannary they were very 

 busy nest-building, carrying long streamers of grass &c. to 

 holes in the wall under the veranda-roof. 



14. Passer DiFFUsrs Smith ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xii. p. 336 (1888). 



No. 83. Sheikh, Jan. 30, 1897. 



We obtained only one specimen of this Sparrow during 

 the whole expedition. 



15. POLIOSPIZA PALLIDIOR Sp. HOV. 



Similis P. tristriafie, sed subtus pallidior, magis grisescens, 

 et rostro majore, saturatiore brnnneo, I'cre nigricante 

 distinguenda. Long. tot. 55 poll., culm. 055, alse 2'7, 

 caudse 215, tai-si 0"75. 

 No. 87. ?. Sheikh, Jan. 31, 1897. Iris hazel. 

 No. 88. Ad. „ „ „ ;, 



No. 161. Juv. Wagga, Feb. 21, „ 

 No. 193. (? ad. „ Feb. 27, „ „ „ 



No. 216. ? juv. ,, „ „ „ „ 



Compared with the series of specimens of F. ftistriata in 

 the British Museum, all my Somali birds are very much 

 greyer on the breast and sides of the body, the specimens 

 from Abyssinia and Shoa being much darker on the under 

 surface, not showing the white abdomen of P. palUdior. 

 The dark colour of the bill is also a conspicuous feature in 

 the Somali bird. 



These White-browed Finches nre to be found in the more 

 thickly wooded parts of the Goolis range and Wagga Moun- 

 tain, where we met with ihcm in small family parties in 

 February. 



16. Rhynchostruthus louis^e Lort Phillips, Bull. Brit. 

 Orn. Club. vi. p. xlvii; id. Ibis, 1897, p 448. (Plate VIII.) 



No. 89. ? ad. Sheikh, Jan. 31, 1897. 

 No. 90. 



No. 177. $ juv. Wagga Mountain, Feb. 24, 1897. Iris 

 brown. 



This species is smaller than R. socoiranus and has not such 



