1917-] the Birds of Yemen. 143 



Petronia dentata. 



Xnnthodira dentata Sundevall, CEfv. Ak. Forh. 1850, 

 p. 127: N.E. Africa. 



a-e. 4 c?, 1 o . Hajeilah, 2080 ft. lO.iii. to 4.iv. 13. 



One male (collected March 10) has the crown greyish- 

 brown, bordered by a rufous eyebrow which merges into the 

 rufous-brown back. The yellow breast-spot is faint and 

 ill-developed. In this bird the " iris is pale brown, the 

 bill (both mandibles) is black, and the legs blackish." Tlie 

 other three males have the lower mandible quite pale with 

 only the tip black, while the crown and back are dull brown 

 and the eyebrow is huffy white. They are very different- 

 looking birds to the one first described^ which is apparently 

 a young bird or one not in breeding-plumage. 



Of this species, though not previously recorded from 

 Arabia, there is a good series of nine males in the British 

 Museum, obtained in various localities in the Amiri district 

 of southern Arabia by Mr. Bury in 1902, between August 

 and November. The same two types are in this series as in 

 the one from Yemen. The females, of which there are five 

 in the Arairi series, all resemble the non-breeding or young 

 males. 



The range of this Rock-Sparrow extends across north-east 

 Africa from Abyssinia and the Anglo-Egyptian Soudan to 

 the Gambia and Portuguese Guinea. 



Passer domesticns buryi. 



Passer domesticus buryi Lorenz u. Hellmayr, Journ. 

 Ornith. 1901, p. 233 : Yeshbum, S. Arabia. 



•Yerbury, 86, p. 182, 96, p. 28; Barnes, 93, p. 83; 

 Hawker, 98, p. 375 ; O.-Grant, 1900, p. 246; id. Ibis, 1901, 

 p. 520 ; Lorenz & Hellmayr, 1901, p. 233, 1907, p. 106. 



a-g. 4 cJ , 3 ? . Menakha, 7000-7500 ft. 23. xii. 12 to 

 21.1.13. 



h-j. 2 (^, 1 ? . Hajeilah, 2080 ft. 19.iii. 13. 



k-7i. 2 c? , 1 c? imm., 1 ? . Sanaa, 7600 ft. 3-17. ix. 13. 



The form of the Sparrow found in southern Arabia seems 

 very close to the Indian subspecies (P. d. indicus), from 



