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Accoi'fling to Heiiglin it feeds on grain near habitations, 

 and in its habits resembles P. moiitann.-^, does not frequent the 

 mountains, but inhabits the lowlands of Kordofan, Sennaar, 

 and the wastes between Berber and Suakin. The type came 

 fi'om Ambukohl on the Nile, and probably not many miles from 

 this locality Heuglin obtained the type of his P. Uchtensteini, 

 nominally from Southern Nubia. 



The egg, lie states, resembles that of our House Sparrow, 

 and measures 0"85 X 0"6. This description does not agree 

 with the two eggs figured as belonging to this bird (J. f. 0. 

 1896, pi. 7, fig. 10). 



Passer diffusus. 



Pyrgita diffusa, Smith, Rep. S. Afr. Exped. App. p. 50 (1836) north 

 of Orange li. 



Passer diffusus, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 228 Zanzibar ; Fisch. and Reichen. 

 J. f. O. 1882, p. 148 Bacjamoijo, Panrjani, Mombasa, Laiiiu ; Bohm, 

 J. f. 0. 1883, p. 201 ; Schalow t. c. p. 364 Kakoma, Ugogo; Reichen. 

 J. f. 0. 1887, p. 305 LeopoldsvUle ; Sousa, Jorn. Lisb. 1887, p. 101 

 Qtiissange; Sliarpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 336 (1888); Biittik. Notes 

 Leyd. Mus. 1889, p. 75 Cimene ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1889, p. 384 Zan- 

 zibar; 1890, p. 124 Camaroons ; Shelley, Ibis, 1890, p. 164 Armvimi ; 

 Reichen. J. f. 0. 1891, p. 158 Mpajma ; id. Vog. D. 0. Afr. p. 195 

 (1894) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 22 Nyasa ; Fleck, J. f. 0. 1894, p. 410 

 Kalahari; SheUey, B. Afr. I. No. 268 (1896) ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1897, 

 p. 41 Togo ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 513 Zulu; Shelley, t. c. p. 528; 

 1898, p. 379 Nyasa ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1898, p. 72 ; Lort Phillips, 

 Ibis, 1898, p. 398 Somali ; Shelley, Ibis, 1899, p. 367 Nyasa ; Alex 

 ander, t. c. p. 565 Zambesi ; Jackson, t. c. p. 619 Ntebi, Nandi ; Nehr- 

 korn, Kat. Eiers. p. 109 (1899) egg ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1900, p. 2 Nyasa ; 

 Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 287 E. Afr. ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. B. I. p. 163 

 (1900) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1901, p. 165 Kachinda, Karungwesi; Witherby, 

 t. c. p. 246 Khartoum; Alexander, Ibis, 1902, p. 297 Gold Coast. 



Pyrgita swainsoni, Riipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 94, pi. 33, fig. 2 (1837-40) 

 N.E. Afr. 



Passer swainsoni, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 139 Gaboon; Reichen. 

 J. f. 0. 1875, p. 42 Camaroons ; Fisch. J. f. 0. 1877, p. 180 Zanzibar ; 

 1878, pp. 266, 281 E. Afr.; Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (2; ii. Bull. p. 113 



