PASSER. 



Passer mtilans, Temm. 



Passer rutilans, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 329 (1888) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml. p. 109 (1899); La Touche, Ibis, 1900, p. 35; 



La Touche $ Rickett, Ibis, 1905, p. 45 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 249 



(1909). 

 Passer rutilans rutilans, Hartert, Vog. Pal. faun. pt. ii. p. 161 (1904). 



One egg of the llusset. Sparrow is of a narrow blunt oval form 

 and almost devoid of gloss. It is greyish-white, blotched and 

 spotted with brown and ashy-grey. The other example has 

 a yellowish-white ground-colour densely clouded all over with 

 chocolate-brown. They measure respectively '73 by '52 and 

 73 by -54. 



1. Kuatun, Fohkien, China, May. 

 1. Amov, China (R. Sivinhoe : 

 Tristram Coll.). 



C. R. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Passer melanurus (P. L. S. Mull.). 



Fringilla arcuata, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 426, tab. xxxiv. 



tig, 16, a-c (1845-54). 

 Passer arcuatus, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 478 (1876-84) ; 



id., Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 333 (1888) [part.]; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 109 (1899); Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 160 



(1900); Haagner, Ibis, 1901, p. 15; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 248 



(1902). 

 Passer melanurus, Reichenow, Vog. Afr. iii. p. 233 (1904); Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 249 (1909). 



The eggs of the Cape Sparrow are as varied as those of P. domes- 

 ticus, and cannot be separated from them. They measure from 

 68 to *88 in length, and from "52 to -6 in breadth. 



7. South Africa. 



2. South Africa. 



3. South Africa. 

 1. South Africa. 



5. South Africa. 



3. South Africa. 



1. Cape Colony (E. L. Layard). 



2. Cape Colony (E. L. Layard: Trist- 



ram Coll.). 



4. Cape Colony (E. L. Layard: Trist- 



ram Coll.}. 



2. Deelfontein, Cape Colony, 31st 



Oct. (E. Seimund). 



4. Deelfontein, 31st Oct. (E. S.}. 



3. Deelfontein, 31st Oct. (E. S.). 



4. Deelfontein, 31st Oct. (E. S.). 

 4. Deelfontein, 31st Oct. (E. &). 

 2. Deelfontein, 31st Oct. (13. S.). 



6. Deelfontein, 10th Nov. (E. S.). 



2. Deelfontein, 20th Nov. (E. S.). 



3. Deelfontein, 20th Nov. (E. S.). 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



Gould Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Col. A. T. Sloggett [P.], 



