Vol. xl.] 60 
Mr. P. A. Buxtow exhibited two winter skins of Passer 
moabiticus mesopotamicus Zarudny,shot near Amara, R. Tigris, 
and)made the following remarks :— 
The species is not uncommon in bushy places along the 
river-banks, in flocks, often associating with P. domesticus, 
subsp. They appear to be very close to P. m. moabiticus 
from the Dead Sea, and Dr. Hartert, who has seen these 
specimens, regards them as barely distinguishable. They 
have, however, slightly longer wing-measurement than the 
typical subspecies. 
The Mesopotamian race was described by Zarudny in 1904 
from Mohammarah, near Basra. 
I should like to call attention to the very curious range of 
this species, a range made rather more than less anomalous 
by Mr. Cheesman’s discoveries. We have the typical sub- 
species, as described by Tristram, at the south end of the 
Dead Sea, P. m. mesopotamicus breeding below Baghdad, 
and the easily separable P. m. yater from Afghanistan and 
Seistan. 
Mr. HE. C. Stuart Baker described and named the 
following subspecies of Carine brama :— 
Carine brama fryi, subsp. nov. 
Types: § 86.2.1.558, ¢ 87.2.1.558, Rameswaram, Paum- 
baum, Madras, 17.3.75. 
Habitat. Mysore, Travancore, Deccan, Madras, and Bom- 
bay Presidency as far north as lat. 14°. Birds from 
Belgaum, practically 16°, are intermediate between fry: and 
true brama. 
Differs from pulehra in being darker and larger, wing 
152-167 mm. as against 131-144 mm., and from true brama 
in being much darker and more heavily blotched and spotted 
below with blackish. 
Hume’s pulchra is easily distinguishable from brama, and 
must be retained. 
We have therefore within Indian limits three forms :—- 
