FRINGILL1DJZ. 187 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



229. Passer diffllSUS, Smith. Southern Grey-headed Sparrow. 



Passer diffusus, Smith's Append, to Keport of Exp. p. 50. 



' Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 3. 



Layard's Cat. No. 407. 



Passer simplex, ibid. No. 409. 

 Passer Swainsoni (part.), Finsch and Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, 



p. 450. 

 Passer diffusus, Sharpe, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 143. 



Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 7283. 



Sharpe's Cat. No. 655. 



I met with this species very sparingly in Damara 

 Land, but found it pretty common on approaching the 

 river Okavango ; it frequents the water in the morning 

 and evening, and feeds on seeds and berries. 



In some specimens of this bird the bill is quite black, 

 in others pale greyish brown with yellow near the base 

 of the lower mandible ; the legs and toes are pale 

 greyish brown. 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



Male. Female, 



in. lin. in. lin. 



Entire length 66 63 



Length of folded wing ...34 31 



tarsus 09 09 



middle toe ....05 06 



tail 2 10 27 



bill 6 6 



