128 Commamlcr II. Lyiics on a 



It was frcfiuontly noted that there are some habits of the 

 lioek-Sparrow that remind one of the Larks. One is raising 

 its body rather higli on the legs and then squatting elose, a 

 eomrnon habit witli the Crested Lark. The flight and an occa- 

 sional querulous note, too, sometimes recall the Crested Lark. 



It is almost impossible to see the yellow throat-patch 

 except at very close range, but the chequered appearance ot 

 the mantle, larger size, and above all the terminal white 

 spots on the tail-fcatliers when in flight, are sufficiently 

 distiiu'tive 1\a' the field-observer. 



PASSlill DOMESTICUS DOMESTICUS (L.) . 



Passer do:mi:sticus ? subsp. 



Passer hispaniolensis hispaniolensis (Temm.). 



Passek nisPAMoi.ENsis MAETT. Hart. 



Passer jtali.i-: (Vieill.) 



The distribution of Sparrows in the ^lediterranean i« 

 remarbable. On the Grecian mainland, in the loniaii 

 Islands and Gi-ecian Archipelago, Smyrna and Cyprus, the 

 Sparrow was J\ donies/icuff, and no other form of Sparrow 

 was found. In Greece, out in the wildest country P. 

 (/onusf/eus would be fontul in plenty around the herdsmen's 

 lints, where one of the chestnut-headed Sparrows miglit 

 have been expected to occur. 



Around Gibraltar and in Sardinia, in the towns and 

 villages Passer domesticvs was found, and in the country 

 P. hispaniolens'ia ; on the Italian mainland and in Crete 

 Passer ita/ia, and in Sicily and ]\Ialta a foi'm intermediate 

 between P. hispanio/ensis and P. itafiee (P. hispuniolensis 

 mnltoi), but inclining to the former, since the flank-streaks 

 are never entirely lacking. 



In Egypt, around the coast typical P. domesticusv^afi found 

 resident, while in the Nile Delta and its vicinity, in addition 

 to tvpical P. liispmnolnn.ns as a winter visitor, a Sparrow 

 appi'oaching/*. domeslicus indicns, and quite noticeably distinct 

 in the field from typical P. dome^ticus by reason of the 

 brighter contrasts of light chestnut and lavender-grey on the 

 dorsal side, was found in \vinter, apparently as a lesidcnt. 



