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found our Spnrrow to be the breeding-bird there, and sepa- 

 rated it as a new race parkini (Bull. B. 0. C. xl. 1920, p. 13). 

 As I have already ))ointed out (J. Bombay N. H. S. xxviii. 

 p. 231), it is a bird of wide distribution. My Sind specimen 

 is a male and measures : wing 83, tail 61, bill 14 mm. It 

 has the white cheeks of indirus and is. on the whole, purer 

 in coloration. 



Passer hispaniolensis transcaspicus Tschusi. 



From the records of the occurrences of the Spanish 

 Sparrow it appears to be a winter visitor in quite small 

 numbers to Upper Sind. To Lower Sind it is only a 

 straffoler : I met with it there but once — a small flock in 

 " kandi ''jungle near Karachi on 22 November, 1919, thougli 

 constantly on the look out for it. It is in my experience 

 much more of a jungle Sparrow than indicus, and is very 

 partial to the 'Mi^han " grass. Sind birds are typicaHravi^- 

 caspicus. 



Passer pyrrhonotus Blyth. 



How a very local bird may be lost sight of for years is 

 well exemplified in the case of the Sind Jungle-Sparrow. 

 It was sent to Blyth by Sir Alexander Burnes, and for 

 nearly forty years no more specimens were forthcoming 

 until Doig in 1880 (S. F. ix. p. 278) announced its re- 

 discovery in the E. Narra, and he had been working in 

 this district for years before he came across it, He found 

 these birds nesting high up in acacias growing in water, and 

 on 24 April they were just beginning to buikl ; he subse- 

 quently found more nests on 25 August, all with young more 

 or less fledged, the nests being in similar situations. As 

 regards the habits he says he never found these birds any 

 distance from water, and they were usually in flocks of five or 

 six or up to twenty in number ; their food consisted of small 

 seeds and insects, and they were very fond of tlie se<Hl of a 

 creeper which grows on the tamarisk. The nests were like 

 those of House-Sparrows but smaller, and the eggs showed 

 three types. The note is like that of a House-Sparrow but 

 fainter. 



