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o£ A. arundinaceus-that is to say, the second primary is only 

 a little shorter than the third (the longest) and reaches 

 between the third and fourth. The first primary is minute, 

 6 mm. longer than the longest primary-covert. The tail is 

 less rounded than in A. stentoreus or A. hrunnescens, the outer 

 feathers being 5-8-5 mm. shorter than the centrals instead 

 of about 14-16 mm. as in A. hrunnescens. The third primary 

 only is emarginate on the outer web, unlike A. hrunnescens, in 

 which the third and fourth primaries are emarginate. The tail 

 is shorter than in any race of A. arundinaceus or A. stentoreus^ 

 markedly so. The colour of the upper parts is more 

 olivaceous-green than in either of these, and the throat is 

 pure white with no obsolete streaks. Under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries paler, almost white. In autumn, judging from 

 the poor specimens we have, the upper parts are more 

 rufescent than in spring birds. 



Wing 78-83-5 mm., tail 61-5-65, bill from base 19-5-22, 

 tarsus 23-5-24. 



Iris brown, bill horn-colour, tongue bright yellow, legs 

 and feet plumbeous. 



Type-localiiy . Basra, Lower Mesopotamia. 



Type-specimen. In Brit. Mus., No. 165, c? , Basra, 22. iv. 



1917. Collected by Major R.E.Cheeseman and Sir Percy Cox. 



Distrihution. Basra, where it evidently breeds, and the 



marshes of Akkarkuf near Baghdad, where Capt. 0. K. 



Pitman obtained it in August. Perhaps sedentary. 



Dr. TiCEHURST also described a new subspecies of Sparrow 

 from Cashmere on behalf of Mr. Hugh Whistler, M.B.O.U.: — 



Passer domesticus parkini, subsp. nov. 



Type, c? , No. 3182, ex Hugh Whistler Coll., 5. iv. 1920. 

 Now in Brit. Mus. 



Type-locality. Srinagar. Cashmere. 



Male. Distinguished from Passer domesticus indicus Jard. 

 & Selby by the richer chestnut of the mantle, scapulars, and 

 lesser wing-coverts.^ and by the considerably larger size and 

 heavier bill ; bill from skull 14-15, wing 77-5-S3, tail 57- 

 62-5, tarsus 18*5-20 mm. 



