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4. Jask, Gulf of Oman, 23rd March. 

 8. Fao, Persian Gulf. 



2. Hariab Valley, Afghanistan, 



16th June (R. G. Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay). 



3. Kotgarh, Himalaya! 27th May. 



1. Kotgarh, July. 



6. Sind (J. H. Gould). 

 30. North-West India. 



8. Jodhpur, Rajputana, 4th April. 



3. Delhi, Punjab, 26th May (C. T. 



Binyham). 



4. Delhi, 27th June (C. T. B.). 



2. Etawah, N.W. Provs. 



1. Etawah, 30th March. 



2. Etawah, 12th April. 



3. Aligarh, N.W. Prov., Aug. 



26. Hoshungabad, C. Provs. (E. C. 

 Nunn). 



1. Barrackpur, Bengal, 17th May 



(R. C. Beavan). 



3. Berachalee, Bengal, 29th March 

 (R. C. B.: Tristram Coll.). 



9. Nilghiri Hills. 



3. Nilghiri Hills (Tristram Coll.}. 



3. Ootacamtmd, Nilghiris, 20th 



May. 



2. Ceylon (E. L. Layard). 



4. Pegu, Burma, 25th Feb. (R W. 



Gates). 



3. Pegu, Oct. & Nov. (E. W. O.). 



S. Butcher, Esq. [P.], 



W. D. Gumming, Esq. [P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 



Gates Coll. 



Passer pyrrhonotus, Blytli. 



Passer pyrrhonotus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 316 (1888) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 238 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests $ 

 Eggs 2nd. Birds, ii. p. 162 (1890) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. \. p. 247 (1909). 



Passer domestica pyrrhonotus, Hartert, Voy. Pal. Faun. pt. ii. p. 151 

 (1904). 



The eggs of the Rufous-backed Sparrow are inseparable from 

 those of the Tree-Sparrow. Gf three specimens in the Collection, 

 two are densely streaked and mottled, leaving little of the ground- 

 colour visible. A third example is blotched and clouded with 

 brown and grey on a whitish ground, fully one-half of which is 

 exposed to view. They measure respectively : '7 by -5 ; -69 by 

 51 ; -67 by -52. 



3. Eastern Narra, Sind, 4th April 

 (S. Doiff). 



Hume Coll. 



