PASSER. 



207 



Passer mtilans, Temm, 



Passer mtilans,- Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 329 (1888) ; Nehrh. 



Kat. Mersamml. p. 109 (1899); La Touche, Ibis, 1900, p. 35; 



La Touche Sr Hickett, Ibis, 1905, p. 45 ; Sharpe, Sand-l. v. p. 249 



(1909). 

 Passer rutilans rutilans, Hartert, Vog. Pal. laun. pt. ii. p. 161 (1904). 



One egg of the llusaet Sparrow is of a narrow blunt oval form 

 and almost devoid of gloss. It is greyish-white, blotched and 

 spotted with brown and ash}--grey. The other example has 

 a yellowish.- white ground-colour densely clouded all over with 

 chocolate-brown. Thev measure respectively '73 by "52 and 

 •73 by '54. 



1. Kuatun, Fohkien, China, May. 

 1. Amoy, China (R. Swinhoe : 

 Tristram Coll.). 



0. B. Kickett, Esq. [P.], 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Passer melanurus (P. L. S. Miill.). 



Fringilla arcuata, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. p. 426, tab. xxxlv. 



fig. 16, a-c (1845-54). 

 Passer arcuatus, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 478 (1876-84) ; 



id., Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 333 (1888) [part.]; Nehrk. Kat. 



Mersamml. p. 109 (1899) ; Stark, Fauna S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 160 



(1900) ; Haagner, Ibis, 1901, p. 15 ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 248 



(1902). 

 Passer melanurus, Beichenoio, ^Vog. Afr. iii. p. 233 (1904); Sharpe, 



Sand-l. V. p. 249 (1909). 



The eggs of the Cape Sparrow are as varied as those of P. domes- 

 ticus, and cannot be separated from them. They measure from 

 ■68 to "88 in length, and from "52 to -6 in breadth. 



7. South Africa. 



4. 

 3. 

 4. 

 4. 

 2. 

 6. 

 2. 

 3. 



South Africa. 



South Africa. 



South Africa. 



South Africa. 



South Africa. 



Cape Colony {F. L. Layard). 



Cape Colony {E. L. Layard: Trist- 

 ram Coll.). 



Cape Colony (F.L. Layard: Trist- 

 ram Coll.). 



Deelfontein, Cape Colony, Slst 

 Oct. {F. Seimund). 



Deelfontein, 31st Oct. (F. S.). 



Deelfontein, 31st Oct. (F. S.). 



Deelfontein, 31st Oct. (F. S.). 



Deelfontein, 31st Oct. (F. S.). 



Deelfontein, 31st Oct. {F. S.). 



Deelfontein, 10th Nov. {F. S.). 



Deelfontein, 20th Nov. {F. S.). 



Deelfontein, 20th Nov. {F. S.). 



W. Radcliflfe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 



E. L. Layard, Esq. fP.]. 

 E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Col. A. T. Sloggett [P.]. 



Col. A. T. 

 Col. A. T. 

 Col. A. T. 

 Col. A. T. 

 Col. A. T. 

 Col. A. T. 

 Col. A. T. 

 Col. A. T. 



Sloggett 

 Sloggett 

 Sloggett 

 Sloggett 

 Sloggett 

 Sloggett 

 Sloggett 



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