256 PASSER EMINI. 



Adult. Similar in colouring to P. diffiisns, but differs in having the head 

 and under parts slightly browner, and beiug a lai'ger bird with a much stouter 

 bill. "Iris hazel; bill black; feet pale brown" (Jackson). Total length 

 6-6 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 3-8, tail 2-8, tarsus 08. <y and 2 . Mt. Kenya 

 (Delamere.) 



The Thick-billed Sparrow inhabits Eastern Equatorial 

 Africa between 5° S. lat. and 12° N. lat. 



The most southern locality known to me for this species, is 

 the village of Gongoni near Mombasa ; here M. Gierra pro- 

 cured the type of Pseudostruthns gongonensh. In the British 

 Museum there are four specimens which were presented to me 

 by Sir John Kirk from Melinda and Lamu ; one of Hilde- 

 brandt's from Kitui in Ukamba and five collected by Lord 

 Delamere from Kikuyu, Lake Baringo and Msara on the north 

 eastern side of Mount Kenia. 



Dr. Ansore has procured the species at Nairobe, and Mr 

 Jackson obtained others at Kibwesi and Elgeyu, where, accord- 

 ing to his notes, "this is the common Sparrow of the country." 

 To the north of Lake Rudolf, Dr. Donaldson Smith met with 

 the species at the Omo river and in the Akara country. The 

 most northern range known for the species is Fazokl on the 

 Blue Nile, from whence the type came, and was labelled 

 Pyrgita crasairosfri.'i by Prince Paul of Wlh'temberg, and lias 

 been well described under that name by Heuglin in 1867. 



Passer emini. 



Sorella emini, Hartl. J. f. O. 1880, p. 211 Lado ; Fisch. J. f. 0. 1885, 

 p. 136 Nguruman ; Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. 1886, p. 340 Lado ; Eeichen. 

 J. f. 0. 1887, p. 72 Wemhere; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 36 Lado, 

 Eedjaf; Eeichen. Yog. D. O. Afr. p. 196 (1894) Neum. J. f. O. 

 1900, p. 287 Kavirondo. 

 Passer emini, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 332 (1888) Lado ; id. Ibis, 1891, 

 p. 257 Njemps ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 270 (1896) ; Jackson, Ibis, 

 1899, p. 619 Elgeyu, Guasa-Molo B. 



