1895.] PEOM WESTEEN SOMAM-IAKT). 469 



a. ff ad. Darar, Sept. 15, 1894. Iris reddish brown ; feet 

 and toes grey. 



Found by Eiippell in the warmer valleys in Abyssinia, but 

 appears to be local, and apparently migratory. Heuglin himself 

 never met with the species, but ^Ir. Jackson procured it near 

 Lake Baringo, and Dr. Eeichenow records it from Ugogo and 

 Igonda. 



31. DiNEMELLIA DESTEMELLI. 



Textor dinemelli (Eiipp. ex Horsf. MSS.) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.- 

 Afr. i. p. 534 (1871); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 194 

 (1884) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 410. 



Dinemdlla dinemelli (Eiipp.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiii. 

 p. 506 (1890); id. Ibis, 1891, p. 255; Salvad. Mem. E. Accad. 

 Torino, xliv. p. 558 (1894 : Banan) ; Eeichen. Yog. Deutsch-Ost- 

 Afr. p. 178 (1894). 



a. 2 ad. Dullaat, July 13, 1894. 



b. cS ad. Boholgarshan, July 15, 1894, 



c. cj ad. Hargeisa, July 18, 1894. 



Met with by Heuglin on the Upper White Nile, in winter and 

 spring, especially in the country of the Kidj Negroes, from Olibo 

 and Belinian. Antinori procured specimens in August in Shoa. 

 Mr. Jackson found the species as far south as Teita, and it has 

 been prcired in the Oseri Elver in the Kilima-njaro district. 



Fam. Feingillid^. 



32. PaSSEE SWAINSONl. 



Passer swainsoni (Eiipp.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) i. p. 176 

 (1884); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 634 (1871); Oust. t. c. p. 9 

 (1886) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 334 ri888) ; id. Ibis, 

 1891, p. 257. 



a. 2 • Sheik Husein, Sept. 26, 1894. Iris dark brown ; angle of 



mouth yellow ; eyes brown, 

 i. c? . _ Sheik Husein, Sept. 26, 1894. Bill black ; legs brown ; 



iris rich brown. 



Heuglin says that this Sparrow lives in pairs in Kordofan, on 

 the White and Blue Niles, in Uniamuezi, Abyssinia, Bogos-land, 

 and Takah, and is everywhere resident. It is also the resident 

 Sparrow of Shoa, according to Antinori, and occurs as far south as 

 Ukambani, where it was found by Mr. Jackson. In German 

 East Africa its place is taken by P. diffusus, according to 

 Dr. Eeichenow. 



33. Peteonia ptegita. 



Xcmthodina purc/ita, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 627, pi. xxi. 

 fig. 2. 



Gymnorhis pyrgita, Heugl. t, c. App. p. cxI ; Shelley, Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 408. 



