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GALERIDA CRISTATA ALTIROSTRIS (Brehm). 
1 &, Luxor, Egypt, 3 March. 
Enormous numbers in Egypt. 
PYRRHULAUDA LEUCOTIS LEUCOTIS (Stanley). 
Pair, Sennar, Blue-Nile, 25 Dec.; Abiad, Dinder, 25 Dec. 
Not common. In pairs. 
FRINGILLIDAE. 
PETRONIA DENTATA (Sundeval). 
4 &’s, Karkoj, Blue-Nile, 31 Dec.; El Sabonabi, 1 Jan.; Ereif el 
Dik, Dinder, 11 Feb. 
The common sparrow of the thorn forest. 
PASSER DOMESTICUS ARBOREUS Bonaparte. 
2 o'’s, Khartoum, 23 Dec., 24 Dec. 
Seen only as far as Singa but not farther south. 
PASSER DOMESTICUS CHEPHRENI Phillips. 
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 1913, 26, p. 167. 
Type, Adult & M. C. Z. No. 63,594 from Gizeh near Cairo, Egypt, 
12 December, 1912. 
Description.— Like P. d. indicus but cheeks and ear-coverts much 
darker (smoke gray, Ridgway, 1912) instead of whitish. Size similar 
to P. indicus. Adult female very similar to P. indicus, but cheeks 
darker and grayer. 
Remarks.— Hartert (V6gel der Paliarktischen fauna, 1, p. 151), 
did not name this lower Nile race, his material being insufficient, but 
in a footnote in the list of species to the first volume he refers the Egyp- 
tian bird to niloticus of Nicoll & Bonhote (Bull. B. O. C., 22, p. 101). 
P. d. niloticus is apparently a local desert race closely resembling 
P. d. arboreus, from Khartoum, and not the typical sparrow of lower 
Egypt, which Nicoll and Bonhote still refer to P. d. indicus. 
Pair, Cairo, Egypt, 12 Dec. 
