252 PASSER DIFFUSUS. 



(1879) Ogoive ; Bohm. J. f. 0. 1883, p. 201 ; 1885, p. 42 Gonda ; p. 67 



Tanganyika ; Piscb. t. c. p. 136 Arusha to Naiwasha ; Dubois, Bull. 



Mus. E. Belg. 1886, p. 149 Tanganyika: Oust. Bull. Ec. Haut. Et. 



xxi. art. 10, p. 9 (1886) Somali ; Eeichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 72 KagcM, 



Mugala ; Matscliie, t. c. p. 154 Upaniba ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 



334 (1888) Abyssinia; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 1888, p. 278 Slwa ; 



Emin, J. f. 0. 1891, p. 60 Ugogo ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, 



1891, p. 25 Mtoni; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 257 Ukambani ; Eendall, 



Ibis, 1892, p. 219 Gambia; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 469 Somali; 



Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 267 (1896) ; Hartert in Ansorge's Under Afr. 



Sun, p. 347 (1899) Unioro, Uganda; Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers. p. 109 



(1899) egg ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 135 ; 1901, pp. 286, 625 S. 



Abyssinia. 

 Pyrgita gularis. Less. Eev. Zool. 1839, p. 45 Senegambia. 

 Passer gularis, Eendall, Ibis, 1892, p. 219 Gambia; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Genov. 1901, p. 777 Bulama Is. 

 Pyrgita spadicea, Licht. Verz. VOg. Kaffernl. p. 15 (1842). 

 Passer occidentalis, Shelley, Ibis, 1883, p. 548 Niger. 

 Passer diffusus occidentalis, Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1900, p. 44 ; 1901, p. 



341 Niger. 

 Passer diffusus thierryi, Eeicben. Orn. Monatsb. 1899, p. 190 Mangu; 



Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1900, p. 45. 

 Passer diffusus ugandaj, Eeichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1899, p. 190 Uganda; 



Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1900, p. 44. 

 Passer simplex (nee Licht.) Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 52 Gold Coast; 



Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 260 St. Thomas Is. ; Shelley and Buckley, 



Ibis, 1872, pp. 282, 290 Gold Coast; Eeichen. and Liihder, J. f. 0. 



1873, p. 216 Accra; Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, &c. p. 26 (1875) 



Senegambia. 



Adult. Upper half of the head and neck ashy grey, passing into brown 

 on the mantle, which latter shades into bright cinnamon on the lower back : 

 upper tail-coverts brown. Wing : lesser coverts uniform chestnut ; median 

 coverts slightly browner, with white ends broadest on the inner feathers ; 

 greater coverts and inner secondaries broadly, and the other quills more 

 narrowly, edged with pale brown of the same colour as the mantle ; 

 remainder of wings dark brown ; inner lining dusky brown, with the 

 axillaries and portions of the coverts and inner edges of the quills white. 

 Tail dark brown with pale edges to the feathers. Sides of the head and 

 neck uniform ashy grey like the crown ; throat and breast paler ash, fading 

 into white on the chin, down the centre of the throat, centre of abdomen, 

 and the under tail-coverts, the latter with a trace of brown shaft-stripes. 

 " Iris brown ; bill quite black, in others pale greyish brown, with yellow 

 near the base of the lower mandible ; legs and toes pale greyish brown " 

 (Andersson). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 34 and 32, tail 



